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Author : Christian Wiese
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656388
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas written by Christian Wiese and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the Jewish background of an eminent philosopher
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226405974
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Imperative of Responsibility written by Hans Jonas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656395
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs written by Hans Jonas and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hans Jonas died in 1993 at the age of 89, he was revered among American scholars specializing in European philosophy, but his thought had not yet made great inroads among a wider public. In Germany, conversely, during the 1980s, when Jonas himself was an octogenarian, he became a veritable intellectual celebrity, owing to the runaway success of his 1979 book, The Imperative of Responsibility, a dense philosophical work that sold 200,000 copies. An extraordinarily timely work today, The Imperative of Responsibility focuses on the ever-widening gap between humankind’s enormous technological capacities and its diminished moral sensibilities. The book became something of a cultural shibboleth; he himself became a celebrated public intellectual. For Jonas, this development must have been enormously gratifying. In the 1920s, Jonas studied philosophy with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger at the universities in Marburg and Freiburg, but the Nazi regime’s early attempts at Aryanizing the universities forced Jonas to leave Germany for London in 1933. He emigrated to Palestine in 1935 and eventually enlisted in the British Army’s Jewish Brigade to fight against Hitlerism. Following the Israeli War of Independence (in which he also fought), he emigrated to the United States and took a position in 1955 at the New School for Social Research in New York. He became part of a circle of friends around Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blucher, which included Adolph Lowe and Paul Tillich. Because Jonas’s life spanned the entire twentieth century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German Jewish émigré intellectuals in New York. In addition, Jonas outlines the development of his work, beginning with his studies under Husserl and Heidegger and extending through his later metaphysical speculations about “God after Auschwitz.” This memoir, a collection of heterogeneous unpublished materials—diaries, memoirs, letters, interviews, and public statements—has been shaped and organized by Christian Wiese, whose afterword links the Jewish dimensions of Jonas’s biography and philosophy.
Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004167226
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Hans Jonas written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810117495
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Phenomenon of Life written by Hans Jonas and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics and cosmology. This work sets forth a systematic philosophy of biological facts, laid out in support of his claim that mind is prefigured throughout organic existence.
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810112868
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mortality and Morality written by Hans Jonas and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas, a pupil of Heidegger and a colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, was one of the most prominent phenomenologists of his generation. This carefully chosen anthology of Jonas's shorter writings - on topics from Jewish philosophy to philosophy of religion to philosophy of biology and social philosophy - reveals their range without obscuring their central unifying thread: that as living, biological beings, we are also beings who die, and who must consider the implications for current and future ethical and social relations.
Author : David J. Levy
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826213846
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hans Jonas written by David J. Levy and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Setting Jonas's work in the historical and philosophical context of his life and times, Levy summarizes Jonas's original achievements in fields as apparently diverse as the history of ancient Gnosticism, the philosophical significance of biology, the problems of ethics in a technological age, and the mysteries of theology, while demonstrating the notable unity of theme and purpose that guided his various fields of inquiry." "Unlike the scattered works, anthologies, and essays that are currently available, Hans Jonas: The Integrity of Thinking provides a much-needed single, coherent overview of the various fields to which Jonas's attention was drawn, bringing out the unified, systematic quality of Jonas's philosophical approach."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Theresa Morris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438448813
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hans Jonass Ethic of Responsibility written by Theresa Morris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonass environmental ethics. Despite his tremendous impact on the German Green Party and the influence of his work on contemporary debates about stem cell research in the United States, Hans Jonass (19031993) philosophical contributions have remained partially obscured. In particular, the ontological grounding he gives his ethics, based on a phenomenological engagement with biology to bridge the is-ought gap, has not been fully appreciated. Theresa Morris provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of Jonass philosophy that reveals the thread that runs through all of his thought, including his work on the philosophy of biology, ethics, the philosophy of technology, and bioethics. She places Jonass philosophy in context, comparing his ideas to those of other ethical and environmental philosophers and demonstrating the relevance of his thought for our current ethical and environmental problems. Crafting strong supporting arguments for Jonass insightful view of ethics as a matter of both reason and emotion, Morris convincingly lays out his account of the basis of our responsibilities not only to the biosphere but also to current and future generations of beings.
Author : Prof Dr Holger Burckhart
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409452301
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility written by Prof Dr Holger Burckhart and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of Hans Jonas was widely influential in the late twentieth century, warning of the potential dangers of technological progress and its negative effect on humanity and nature. Jonas advocated greater moral responsibility and taking this as a starting point, leading international scholars and experts on his work suggest original and promising solutions to current ethical issues within the context of his philosophy. The book considers the vital intersection between law and global ethics and covers issues related to technology and ethics, medical ethics, religion and environmental ethics.
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415080200
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gnostic Religion written by Hans Jonas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
