The book that brings together Hannah Arendt's vision of the philosophy of Heidegger and Jaspers, while addressing the foundations of existentialism.

"What is the philosophy of existence?" it is the vibrant discussion with Heidegger and Jaspers with which Arendt returned to writing philosophy after the Second World War. The depth and originality of Arendt's interpretation are the unequivocal imprint of a high-flying thinker on her own, who gives birth to existentialism in Kant, by breaking the unity of thinking with being, and makes it die in Heidegger, by defining human beings for an authenticity and isolation that they cannot in principle achieve. Arendt's search for a new understanding of the human condition is clearly seen in the passionate debate.