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Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good after Auschwitz » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Hans Jonas, Lawrence Vogel, Lawrence Vogel (Editor), Lawrence Vogel
ISBN-13: 9780810112865, ISBN-10: 0810112868
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Date Published: July 1996
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Hans Jonas

Book Synopsis

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.

	Acknowledgments
	Editor's Introduction: Hans Jonas' Exodus: from German Existentialism to Post-Holocaust Theology	1
	Prologue: Philosophy at the End of the Century: Retrospect and Prospect	41
Pt. 1	The Need of Reason: Grounding an Imperative of Responsibility in the Phenomenon of Life
1	Evolution and Freedom: On the Continuity Among Life-Forms	59
2	Tool, Image, and Grave: On What Is Beyond the Animal in Man	75
3	The Burden and Blessing of Mortality	87
4	Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future	99
Pt. 2	A Luxury of Reason: Theological Speculations After Auschwitz
5	Immortality and the Modern Temper	115
6	The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice	131
7	Is Faith Still Possible?: Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work	144
8	Matter, Mind, and Creation: Cosmological Evidence and Cosmogonic Speculation	165
	Epilogue: The Outcry of Mute Things	198
	Notes	203
	Bibliography	213
	Index	217