{"product_id":"hans-jonas-9781350216662","title":"Hans Jonas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Jonas (19031993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyne brings together for the first time in English Jonas's philosophy of life, ethic of responsibility, political theory, philosophy of technology and bioethics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility, \u003c\/i\u003eCoyne argues that the aim of Jonas's philosophy is to confront three critical issues inherent to modernity: nihilism, the ecological crisis and the transhumanist drive to biotechnologically enhance human beings. While these might at first appear disparate, for Jonas all follow from the materialist turn taken by Western thought from the 17th century onwards, and he therefore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoyne has delivered an ambitious account of the multiple strains of Jonas’s thinking. While it is clear that Coyne deems several portions of Jonas’s thought as offering less than satisfactory answers, he also demonstrates that Jonas’s thinking does impressively counteract the most dangerous tendencies of modern Gnosticism by reminding us of the fateful balance we hold with nature. * Review of Metaphysics *\u003cbr\u003eWell known within the areas of environmental philosophy, theology and bioethics, Jonas's overall contribution to philosophy has been somewhat overlooked in the English speaking world. Coyne offers an excellent comprehensive analysis of Jonas's contribution to philosophy, presenting his philosophy as a systematic and unified corpus of thought. A much welcome addition to the literature on this fascinating thinker, Coyne's book is essential reading for students and scholars wishing to familiarise themselves with Hans Jonas’s philosophy. * Darian Meacham, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Maastricht University, The Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e  I. Jonas’s Philosophical Project  II. The Man and His Work    \u003cb\u003e1. The Gnosticism of Modernity\u003c\/b\u003e  I. The Gnostic Principle  II. Nihilism, Ancient and Modern  III. The Scientific Revolution  IV. The Age of Technology  V. The Baconian Ideal    \u003cb\u003e2. The Philosophy of Life I: The Organism\u003c\/b\u003e  I. Dualism, Materialism, Integral Monism  II. The Phenomenological Approach to Organismic Being  III. Self-Organization  IV. Behaviour  V. The \u003ci\u003eNisus\u003c\/i\u003e of Being  \u003cb\u003e3. The Philosophy of Life II: The \u003ci\u003eScala Naturae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e I. Aristotle After Darwin II. Plants III. Animals IV. Humans V. Being is One   \u003cb\u003e4. Values and the Good\u003c\/b\u003e  I. The Axiological Dimension of Teleology  II. Species and the Biosphere  III. The Good of Being  IV. Moral Traditions   \u003cb\u003e5. New Dimensions of Responsibility\u003c\/b\u003e  I. Ethics, Old and New  II. The Temporal Horizon  III. Responsibility for the ‘Idea of Man’  IV. Global and Intergenerational Ethics  V. Duties to Non-Human Life   \u003cb\u003e6. The Politics of Nature\u003c\/b\u003e  I. The Nature of Politics  II. New Rules for Collective Action  III. Farewell to Utopia? IV. Rival Interpretations of Jonas’s Politics  V. Freedom and the Republic   \u003cb\u003e7. Toward a Richer Bioethics\u003c\/b\u003e  I. The Dignity of the Person  II. Human Beings as Means  III. The Threshold of Life and Death  IV. The Future of the Human Condition   \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e I. Humanity: The Shepherd of Beings II. Carrying the Fire  \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019639685463,"sku":"9781350216662","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350216662.jpg?v=1750780872","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hans-jonas-9781350216662","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}