Legacy of Hans Jonas (paperback)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Ph.D. (1978) in Philosophy and Mysticism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is professor of History, Director of Jewish Studies, and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism at Arizona State University. She has published extensively on Jewish intellecutal history, including Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being (Hebrew Union College Press, 2003).Christian Wiese, Ph.D. (1997), is Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and taught at Erfurt University, in Montreal and Dublin, as well as at Dartmouth College. He has published extensively on modern Jewish history and thought, including Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany (Brill, 2005).

• CONTENTSPreface Understanding Jonas: An Interdisciplinary ProjectHava Tirosh-Samuelson Introduction Ethics after Auschwitz: Hans Jonas’s Notion of Responsibility in a Technological Age Richard WolinPART ONE: A GERMAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUALChapter One Hans Jonas’s Position in the History of German Philosophy Vittorio HösleChapter Two Hans Jonas in Marburg, 1928 Steven M. WasserstromChapter Three Ressentiment—A Few Motifs in Hans Jonas’s Early Book on Gnosticism Micha BrumlikChapter Four Hans Jonas and Research on Gnosticism from a Contemporary Perspective Kurt RudolphChapter Five Pauline Theology in the Weimar Republic: Hans Jonas, Karl Barth, and Martin Heidegger Benjamin LazierChapter Six Despair and Responsibility: Affinities and Differences in the Thought of Hans Jonas and Günther Anders Konrad Paul LiessmannChapter Seven Ernst Bloch’s Prinzip Hoffnung and Hans Jonas’s Prinzip VerantwortungMichael LöwyChapter Eight Zionism, the Holocaust, and Judaism in a Secular World: New Perspectives on Hans Jonas’s Friendship with Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt Christian WieseChapter Nine The Immediacy of Encounter and the Dangers of Dichotomy: Buber, Levinas, and Jonas on Responsibility Micha H. WernerChapter Ten Hans Jonas and Secular Religiosity Ron MargolinPART TWO: THE PHENOMENON OF LIFE AND THE THREAT OF EXTINCTION: THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, BIOETHICS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHYChapter Eleven Hans Jonas and Ernst Mayr: On Organic Life and Human Responsibility Strachan DonnelleyChapter Twelve Natural-Law Judaism?: The Genesis of Bioethics in Hans Jonas, Leo Strauss, and Leon Kass Lawrence VogelChapter Thirteen Cloning and Corporeality Bernard G. PrusakChapter Fourteen Reason and Feeling in Hans Jonas’s Existential Biology, Arne Naess’s Deep Ecology, and Spinoza’s EthicsMartin D. YaffeChapter Fifteen Caretaker or Citizen: Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold, and the Development of Jewish Environmental Ethics Lawrence TrosterChapter Sixteen Jonas, Whitehead, and the Problem of Power Sandra B. LubarskyChapter Seventeen “God’s Adventure with the World” and “Sanctity of Life”: Theological Speculations and Ethical Reflections in Jonas’s Philosophy after Auschwitz Christian WieseChapter Eighteen Infants, Paternalism, and Bioethics: Japan’s Grasp of Jonas’s Insistence on Intergenerational Responsibility William R. LaFleurPART THREE: RESPONSES AND REFLECTIONSChapter Nineteen Reflections on the Place of Gnosticism and Ethics in the Thought of Hans Jonas Kalman P. BlandChapter Twenty On Making Persons: Philosophy of Nature and Ethics Frederick FerréChapter Twenty-One Philosophical Biology and Environmentalism Carl MitchamChapter Twenty-Two More on Jonas and Process PhilosophyRobert Cummings NevilleHans Jonas: Life and Works Christian Wiese