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Interview

Hans Saner

Hans Saner is both an original thinker and a link to the great days of existentialism. Filiz Peach asked him about his relationship with Karl Jaspers, and about the future of philosophy.

Thinkers are often not fully appreciated during their lifetimes. One example is the Swiss philosopher, Professor Hans Saner. It is regrettable that his name is hardly known in the English-speaking world – for on the Continent of Europe his scholarship and his original contributions to philosophy are widely recognised. Those few in Britain and North America who do encounter his work usually do so as a result of an interest in existentialism, and particularly if they are interested in the ideas of the great existentialist Karl Jaspers (1883-1969). Jaspers himself has also been rather neglected in the Englishspeaking countries, but is widely regarded as one of the three leading figures of 20th century existentialism, along with Heidegger and Sartre.

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