{"product_id":"the-legacy-of-hans-jonas-paperback-judaism-and-the-phenomenon-of-life-9789004186224","title":"The Legacy of Hans Jonas (paperback): Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHans 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS 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 PART ONE: A GERMAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL 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 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 PART TWO: THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE AND THE THREAT OF EXTINCTION: THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, BIOETHICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 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 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 PART THREE: RESPONSES AND REFLECTIONS 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210620166487,"sku":"9789004186224","price":67.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-legacy-of-hans-jonas-paperback-judaism-and-the-phenomenon-of-life-9789004186224","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}