To answer for meaning. Responsibility, relation, and the persistence of meaning under limit

Meaning is often treated as something we must discover within ourselves. But what if meaning does not begin inside us at all? In "To Answer for Meaning", Gabriel Neumann explores the psychology and philosophy of meaning from a different starting point: the experience of being addressed by life itself. Drawing on the work of Viktor Frankl, Karl Jaspers, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig, the book argues that meaning does not arise from introspection alone, but from the encounter between a person and the situations that call for response. Through philosophical reflection and clinical insight, the book examines how meaning emerges in moments where certainty disappears: in responsibility, in relation to others, and at the limits of human control. Rather than offering a theory of happiness or self-fulfilment, "To Answer for Meaning" presents meaning as something more demanding and more realistic: a response to the questions that life places before us.