The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions »

CHRISTIAN WIESE is Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies and Professor at the History Department at Sussex University, Great Britain. He is the editor of Memoirs: Hans Jonas, also available from Brandeis University Press.

An analysis of the Jewish background of an eminent philosopher

Acknowledgments Introduction: "Philosopher and Jew"
The Fight for the Dignity of the Jews: The Impact of Zionism and the Holocaust on Jonas's Biography and Thought From the Rhineland to Jerusalem Against the "Cult of Power and Contempt for Humanity"
Friendships and Conflicts among German-Jewish Emigre Scholars
"For a Time I Was Privileged to Enjoy His Friendship": The Ambivalent Relation to Gershom Scholem The Mystery of Jewish Existence and Contested Memories: Impressions of Jonas's Friendship with Hannah Arendt
"Revolt against Escapism": Jewish Dimensions of Jonas's Ethics of Responsibility The Value of Life: Philosophical Critique of Nihilism Rotseh ba-hayyim—Creation and Responsibility for the "Sanctity of Life"
De-Messianized Tikkun—Human Responsibility for the
"Divine Adventure"
Epilogue: "There Is a Mystery in the World"
Appendix A - Our Part in This War: A Word to Jewish Men (1939)
Appendix B - From an Unpublished Fragment of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (15 August 1941)
Appendix C - Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975: Eulogy Delivered at the Funeral Service at Riverside Memorial Chapel, New York City (18 December 1975)
Appendix D. Letter to Hannah Arendt on Her Eichmann Book (1963)
Notes Bibliography Index