Chapter Six. Despair And Responsibility: Affinities And Differences In The Thought Of Hans Jonas And Günther Anders

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The Legacy of Hans Jonas

Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life

Cover The Legacy of Hans Jonas
E-Book ISBN:
9789047442103
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2008
Preliminary Materials
Introduction Ethics After Auschwitz: Hans Jonas’s Notion Of Responsibility In A Technological Age
Chapter One. Hans Jonas’s Position In The History Of German Philosophy
Chapter Two. Hans Jonas In Marburg, 1928
Chapter Three. Ressentiment—A Few Motifs In Hans Jonas’s Early Book On Gnosticism
Chapter Four. Hans Jonas And Research On Gnosticism From A Contemporary Perspective
Chapter Five. Pauline Theology In The Weimar Republic: Hans Jonas, Karl Barth, And Martin Heidegger
Chapter Seven. Ernst Bloch’s Prinzip Hoffnung And Hans Jonas’s Prinzip Verantwortung
Chapter Eight. Zionism, The Holocaust, And Judaism In A Secular World: New Perspectives On Hans Jonas’s Friendship With Gershom Scholem And Hannah Arendt
Appendix Hans. Jonas, “Our Part In This War: A Word To Jewish Men” (September 1939)
Chapter Nine. The Immediacy Of Encounter And The Dangers Of Dichotomy: Buber, Levinas, And Jonas On Responsibility
Chapter Ten. Hans Jonas And Secular Religiosity
Chapter Eleven. Hans Jonas And Ernst Mayr: On Organic Life And Human Responsibility
Chapter Twelve. Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis Of Bioethics In Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, And Leon Kass
Chapter Thirteen. Cloning And Corporeality
Appendix
Chapter Fourteen. Reason And Feeling In Hans Jonas’s Existential Biology, Arne Naess’s Deep Ecology, And Spinoza’s Ethics
Chapter Fifteen. Caretaker Or Citizen: Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold, And The Development Of Jewish Environmental Ethics
Chapter Sixteen. Jonas, Whitehead, And The Problem Of Power
Chapter Seventeen. “God’S Adventure With The World” And “Sanctity Of Life”: Theological Speculations And Ethical Reflections In Jonas’s Philosophy After Auschwitz
Chapter Eighteen. Infants, Paternalism, And Bioethics: Japan’s Grasp Of Jonas’s Insistence On Intergenerational Responsibility
Chapter Nineteen. Reflections On The Place Of Gnosticism And Ethics In The Thought Of Hans Jonas
Chapter Twenty. On Making Persons: Philosophy Of Nature And Ethics
Chapter Twenty-One. Philosophical Biology And Environmentalism
Chapter Twenty-Two. More On Jonas And Process Philosophy
Hans Jonas: Life And Works
Bibliography
Index Of Names
Index Of Subjects

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