Mortality and Morality: A Search for Good after Auschwitz
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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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.
AcknowledgmentsEditor's Introduction: Hans Jonas' Exodus: from German Existentialism to Post-Holocaust Theology1Prologue: Philosophy at the End of the Century: Retrospect and Prospect41Pt. 1The Need of Reason: Grounding an Imperative of Responsibility in the Phenomenon of Life1Evolution and Freedom: On the Continuity Among Life-Forms592Tool, Image, and Grave: On What Is Beyond the Animal in Man753The Burden and Blessing of Mortality874Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future99Pt. 2A Luxury of Reason: Theological Speculations After Auschwitz5Immortality and the Modern Temper1156The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice1317Is Faith Still Possible?: Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work1448Matter, Mind, and Creation: Cosmological Evidence and Cosmogonic Speculation165Epilogue: The Outcry of Mute Things198Notes203Bibliography213Index217
