Hans Jonas : The Early Years (Hardcover)

1. From Husserl to Heidegger: Jonas’s Double Memory? 2. Lessons in Interrogative Thinking: Jonas and Bultmann? 3. Hans Jonas’s Contributions to Rudolph Bultmann’s Demythologization? 4. The Aporias of Human Freedom: An Early Letter and its Long Impact? 5. Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt’s Variations on St. Augustine? 6. Hans Jonas on Gnosis and Late Antiquity: In Search of the Spirit of an Epoch? 7. A Historical Transcendental at the Heart of Jonas’ Research on Gnosticism? 8. The Gnostic Myth as a Gambit in German Intellectual Tradition? 9. Gnosis und spatantiker Geist. Teil II: The Forgotten Book? 10. From Gnosis und spatantiker Geist to The Gnostic Religion: The Jerusalem Period in Hans Jonas’s Intellectual Development? 11. Once a Gnostic, Always a Gnostic: The Persistence of Gnosticism in Hans Jonas’s Post-War Thought? 12. Resisting Nihilism: The Motif of Entwurzelung in Jonas’s Early Writings