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The legacy of Hans Jonas : Judaism and the phenomenon of life / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Christian Wiese.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xlii, 576 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789047442103
  • 9047442105
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Legacy of Hans JonasDDC classification:
  • 193 22
LOC classification:
  • B3279.J664 L44 2008
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Ch. 10 Hans Jonas and Secular Religiosity / Ron Margolin -- pt. 2 The Phenomenon of Life and the Threat of Extinction: Theoretical Biology, Bioethics, and Environmental Philosophy: Ch. 11 Hans Jonas and Ernst Mayr: On Organic Life and Human Responsibility / Strachan Donnelley -- Ch. 12 Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel -- Ch. 13 Cloning and Corporeality / Bernard G. Prusak -- Ch. 14 Reason and Feeling in Hans Jonas's Existential Biology, Arne Naess's Deep Ecology, and Spinoza's Ethics / Martin D. Yaffe -- Ch. 15 Caretaker or Citizen: Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold, and the Development of Jewish Environmental Ethics / Lawrence Troster -- Ch. 16 Jonas, Whitehead, and the Problem of Power / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Ch. 17 "God's Adventure with the World" and "Sanctity of Life": Theological Speculations and Ethical Reflections in Jonas's Philosophy after Auschwitz / Christian Wiese -- Ch. 18 Infants, Paternalism, and Bioethics: Japan's Grasp of Jonas's Insistence on Intergenerational Responsibility / William R. LaFleur -- pt. 3 Responses and Reflections: Ch. 19 Reflections on the Place of Gnosticism and Ethics in the Thought of Hans Jonas / Kalman P. Bland -- Ch. 20 On Making Persons: Philosophy of Nature and Ethics / Frederick Ferre -- Ch. 21 Philosophical Biology and Environmentalism / Carl Mitcham -- Ch. 22 More on Jonas and Process Philosophy / Robert Cummings Neville -- Hans Jonas: Life and Works / Christian Wiese Wiese.
Preface: Understanding Jonas: An Interdisciplinary Project / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Introduction Ethics after Auschwitz: Hans Jonas's Notion of Responsibility in a Technological Age / Richard Wolin -- pt. 1 A German-Jewish Intellectual: Ch. 1 Hans Jonas's Position in the History of German Philosophy / Vittorio Hosle -- Ch. 2 Hans Jonas in Marburg, 1928 / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Ch. 3 Ressentiment -- A Few Motifs in Hans Jonas's Early Book on Gnosticism / Micha Brumlik -- Ch. 4 Hans Jonas and Research on Gnosticism from a Contemporary Perspective / Kurt Rudolph -- Ch. 5 Pauline Theology in the Weimar Republic: Hans Jonas, Karl Barth, and Martin Heidegger / Benjamin Lazier -- Ch. 6 Despair and Responsibility: Affinities and Differences in the Thought of Hans Jonas and Gunther Anders / Konrad Paul Liessmann -- Ch. 7 Ernst Bloch's Prinzip Hoffnung and Hans Jonas's Prinzip Verantwortung / Michael Lowy -- Ch. 8 Zionism, the Holocaust, and Judaism in a Secular World: New Perspectives on Hans Jonas's Friendship with Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt / Christian Wiese -- Ch. 9 The Immediacy of Encounter and the Dangers of Dichotomy: Buber, Levinas, and Jonas on Responsibility / Micha H. Werner.
Summary: Offers an interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-553) and indexes.

Ch. 10 Hans Jonas and Secular Religiosity / Ron Margolin -- pt. 2 The Phenomenon of Life and the Threat of Extinction: Theoretical Biology, Bioethics, and Environmental Philosophy: Ch. 11 Hans Jonas and Ernst Mayr: On Organic Life and Human Responsibility / Strachan Donnelley -- Ch. 12 Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel -- Ch. 13 Cloning and Corporeality / Bernard G. Prusak -- Ch. 14 Reason and Feeling in Hans Jonas's Existential Biology, Arne Naess's Deep Ecology, and Spinoza's Ethics / Martin D. Yaffe -- Ch. 15 Caretaker or Citizen: Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold, and the Development of Jewish Environmental Ethics / Lawrence Troster -- Ch. 16 Jonas, Whitehead, and the Problem of Power / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Ch. 17 "God's Adventure with the World" and "Sanctity of Life": Theological Speculations and Ethical Reflections in Jonas's Philosophy after Auschwitz / Christian Wiese -- Ch. 18 Infants, Paternalism, and Bioethics: Japan's Grasp of Jonas's Insistence on Intergenerational Responsibility / William R. LaFleur -- pt. 3 Responses and Reflections: Ch. 19 Reflections on the Place of Gnosticism and Ethics in the Thought of Hans Jonas / Kalman P. Bland -- Ch. 20 On Making Persons: Philosophy of Nature and Ethics / Frederick Ferre -- Ch. 21 Philosophical Biology and Environmentalism / Carl Mitcham -- Ch. 22 More on Jonas and Process Philosophy / Robert Cummings Neville -- Hans Jonas: Life and Works / Christian Wiese Wiese.

Preface: Understanding Jonas: An Interdisciplinary Project / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Introduction Ethics after Auschwitz: Hans Jonas's Notion of Responsibility in a Technological Age / Richard Wolin -- pt. 1 A German-Jewish Intellectual: Ch. 1 Hans Jonas's Position in the History of German Philosophy / Vittorio Hosle -- Ch. 2 Hans Jonas in Marburg, 1928 / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Ch. 3 Ressentiment -- A Few Motifs in Hans Jonas's Early Book on Gnosticism / Micha Brumlik -- Ch. 4 Hans Jonas and Research on Gnosticism from a Contemporary Perspective / Kurt Rudolph -- Ch. 5 Pauline Theology in the Weimar Republic: Hans Jonas, Karl Barth, and Martin Heidegger / Benjamin Lazier -- Ch. 6 Despair and Responsibility: Affinities and Differences in the Thought of Hans Jonas and Gunther Anders / Konrad Paul Liessmann -- Ch. 7 Ernst Bloch's Prinzip Hoffnung and Hans Jonas's Prinzip Verantwortung / Michael Lowy -- Ch. 8 Zionism, the Holocaust, and Judaism in a Secular World: New Perspectives on Hans Jonas's Friendship with Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt / Christian Wiese -- Ch. 9 The Immediacy of Encounter and the Dangers of Dichotomy: Buber, Levinas, and Jonas on Responsibility / Micha H. Werner.

Offers an interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.