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Mortality and Morality: Search for the Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Jonas, Hans

 
9780810112865: Mortality and Morality: Search for the Good After Auschwitz (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0810112868 ISBN 13: 9780810112865
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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. Grounded in Jonas's belief in the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics - the reality of values at the centre of being - and shaped by his experience as a Holocaust survivor, the deeply personal essays ""Mortality and morality"" arise from a Jewish thinker's attempt to make sense of the Jewish experience in the twentieth century. Lawrence Vogel's insightful introduction provides both historical and philosophical contexts in which to understand the importance and gravity of Jonas's thought.

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About the Author

HANS JONAS (1903-1993) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future.

From the Back Cover

Hans Jonas (1903-93)--German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research--was one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. This book both consummates and demonstrates the basic thrust of Jonas's thought: the inseparability of ethics and metaphysics, the reality of values at the center of being.

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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810112868
ISBN 13 
9780810112865
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224
Editor
Vogel Lawrence