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Carmen Lea Dege is Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Israel. She is currently writing a book on the theory and practice of uncertainty with a focus on Karl Jaspers. Follow her on Twitter @carmen_dege.
While existentialist thinking has much wisdom to offer about anxiety, contingency, and death, we must also think concretely about politics and institutions.
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