2010, ISBN: 9789004186224

Gebundene Ausgabe

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Octavo. xlii, 576pp. Indices and 34 page bibliography. Blue softcover lettered in white. Frontispiece photo of Hans Jonas. A fine, as new copy. Hans … Mehr…

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Octavo. xlii, 576pp. Indices and 34 page bibliography. Blue softcover lettered in white. Frontispiece photo of Hans Jonas. A fine, as new copy. Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most creative and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth-century. This volume offers a retrospective of Jonas's life and works by bringing together historians of modern Germany, Judaica scholars, philosophers, bioethicists, and environmentalists to reflect on the meaning of his legacy today. From a historian of religions, who wrote a path-breaking monograph on Gnosticism, Jonas turned to the philosophy of nature, extending his existential philosophy and phenomenological analysis to include all forms of life. Unique among twentieth-century Jewish philosophers, Jonas argued for the possibility of a genuinely symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature, which he believed had been suppressed by modern technology. Jonas spoke against the human domination of nature on the basis of Jewish sources, especially the Bible and Lurianic Kabbalah, and he was among the first to define the ethical challenges that modern technology poses to humanity. Contents: 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.; 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. Note: a hardcover edition of this work was published in 2008 @ $322.00., Brill, 2010, 0<

2010, ISBN: 9789004186224

Gebundene Ausgabe

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Octavo. xlii, 576pp. Indices and 34 page bibliography. Blue softcover lettered in white. Frontispiece photo of Hans Jonas. A fine, as new copy. Hans … Mehr…

Leiden: Brill, 2010. First edition. Octavo. xlii, 576pp. Indices and 34 page bibliography. Blue softcover lettered in white. Frontispiece photo of Hans Jonas. A fine, as new copy. Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most creative and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth-century. This volume offers a retrospective of Jonas's life and works by bringing together historians of modern Germany, Judaica scholars, philosophers, bioethicists, and environmentalists to reflect on the meaning of his legacy today. From a historian of religions, who wrote a path-breaking monograph on Gnosticism, Jonas turned to the philosophy of nature, extending his existential philosophy and phenomenological analysis to include all forms of life. Unique among twentieth-century Jewish philosophers, Jonas argued for the possibility of a genuinely symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature, which he believed had been suppressed by modern technology. Jonas spoke against the human domination of nature on the basis of Jewish sources, especially the Bible and Lurianic Kabbalah, and he was among the first to define the ethical challenges that modern technology poses to humanity. Contents: 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.; 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. Note: a hardcover edition of this work was published in 2008 @ $322.00., Brill, 2010, 0<