Hans Jonas: Philosophy as Personal Engagement - 9783032134615

Hans Jonas: Philosophy as Personal EngagementAuthor(s): Roberto Franzini Tibaldeo, Nathalie Frogneux, Jelson Oliveira\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783032134615, 978-3032134615\nSynopsis\nThis text presents a critical synthesis of the thought of Hans Jonas [tel], a philosopher of Jewish origin and former pupil of M. Heidegger and R. Bultmann in Marburg, who in 1933 fled from Nazi Germany to Palestine, Canada and finally settled in the USA. Jonas authored significant works on late-antique Gnosticism, the philosophy of life, philosophical anthropology, the ethics of responsibility, bioethics, and speculative theology. The book also proposes a comprehensive and innovative interpretation of Jonas thought in terms of a deep and relentless commitment to the future, in face of the perils of contemporary nihilism and present-day technology.\n\nThe intrinsic complexity and heterogeneity of Jonas ph.