Hans Jonas's scientific contributions
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Publications (2)
"Hans Jonas (1903-93) was a German Jew, pupil of Heidegger and Bultmann, lifelong friend and colleague of Hannah Arendt at the New School for Social Research, and one of the most prominent thinkers of his generation. The range of his topics never obscures their unifying thread: that our mortality is at the root of our moral responsibility to safegu...
Citations
... In our era we are presented with no such call. The philosopher Hans Jonas has put it in these terms (Jonas 1996): ...
... Therefore, relying on aural and olfactory inputs when establishing the spatial and temporal coordinates of a story is a way to enrich those coordinates and assign them broader meanings and figurative connotations, vastly expanding their significance beyond that of a space-time visually perceived and, as such, kept under the percipient's control. Theoretical work on this subject has shown that sight can provide a more solid anchorage for knowledge of reality as a whole (Jonas [1966(Jonas [ ] 2001, while hearing and smell are particularly effective at capturing dynamic fragments that can broaden our experience of space (Tuan 1990, pp. 8-10), thus also the meaning and possibilities that are inherent in narrative space-time. ...
