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

• TeilnehmendeR: Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-; Wiese, Christian, 1961-
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2008
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (620 p.)
• Notes: This volume originated in a conference at Arizona State University (ASU) on November 6-7, 2005.

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. This book is also available in paperback.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese -- Introduction Ethics After Auschwitz: Hans Jonas’s Notion Of Responsibility In A Technological Age / Richard Wolin -- Chapter One. Hans Jonas’s Position In The History Of German Philosophy / Vittorio Hösle -- Chapter Two. Hans Jonas In Marburg, 1928 / Steven M. Wasserstrom -- Chapter Three. Ressentiment—A Few Motifs In Hans Jonas’s Early Book On Gnosticism / Micha Brumlik -- Chapter Four. Hans Jonas And Research On Gnosticism From A Contemporary Perspective / Kurt Rudolph -- Chapter Five. Pauline Theology In The Weimar Republic: Hans Jonas, Karl Barth, And Martin Heidegger / Benjamin Lazier -- Chapter Six. Despair And Responsibility: Affinities And Differences In The Thought Of Hans Jonas And Günther Anders / Konrad Paul Liessmann -- Chapter Seven. Ernst Bloch’s Prinzip Hoffnung And Hans Jonas’s Prinzip Verantwortung / Michael Löwy -- Chapter Eight. Zionism, The Holocaust, And Judaism In A Secular World: New Perspectives On Hans Jonas’s Friendship With Gershom Scholem And Hannah Arendt / Christian Wiese -- Appendix Hans. Jonas, “Our Part In This War: A Word To Jewish Men” (September 1939) / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese -- Chapter Nine. The Immediacy Of Encounter And The Dangers Of Dichotomy: Buber, Levinas, And Jonas On Responsibility / Micha H. Werner -- Chapter Ten. Hans Jonas And Secular Religiosity / Ron Margolin -- Chapter Eleven. Hans Jonas And Ernst Mayr: On Organic Life And Human Responsibility / Strachan Donnelley -- Chapter Twelve. Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis Of Bioethics In Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, And Leon Kass / Lawrence Vogel -- Chapter Thirteen. Cloning And Corporeality / Bernard G. Prusak -- Appendix / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese -- Chapter Fourteen. Reason And Feeling In Hans Jonas’s Existential Biology, Arne Naess’s Deep Ecology, And Spinoza’s Ethics / Martin D. Yaffe -- Chapter Fifteen. Caretaker Or Citizen: Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold, And The Development Of Jewish Environmental Ethics / Lawrence Troster -- Chapter Sixteen. Jonas, Whitehead, And The Problem Of Power / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Chapter Seventeen. “God’S Adventure With The World” And “Sanctity Of Life”: Theological Speculations And Ethical Reflections In Jonas’s Philosophy After Auschwitz / Christian Wiese -- Chapter Eighteen. Infants, Paternalism, And Bioethics: Japan’s Grasp Of Jonas’s Insistence On Intergenerational Responsibility / William R. Lafleur -- Chapter Nineteen. Reflections On The Place Of Gnosticism And Ethics In The Thought Of Hans Jonas / Kalman P. Bland -- Chapter Twenty. On Making Persons: Philosophy Of Nature And Ethics / Frederick Ferré -- Chapter Twenty-One. Philosophical Biology And Environmentalism / Carl Mitcham -- Chapter Twenty-Two. More On Jonas And Process Philosophy / Robert Cummings Neville -- Hans Jonas: Life And Works / Christian Wiese -- Bibliography / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese -- Index Of Names / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese -- Index Of Subjects / H. Tirosh-Samuelson and C. Wiese.