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288Hans Jonas' 'Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism', and Ludwig von BertalanffyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (3): 289-311. 2012.‘Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism’ (published in Social Research , 1952) is indeed one of Hans Jonas’ most famous essays, to which its author reserved very deep attention during his philosophical career. As a former pupil of Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann, Jonas started to deal with religious topics, and specifically with Gnosticism, from the very outset of his philosophical career in the 1920s. After gaining recognition thanks to his remarkable philosophical-existential interpretation of Gn…Read more
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1748The book focuses on the thinking of the philosopher of Jewish origins, Hans Jonas (1903-1993), and precisely on his “philosophical biology”. The overall thesis is that this topic, which occupies the second stage of his thinking, is coherent with the previous phase (which focused on ancient Gnosticism), as well as with the following (which was dedicated to the ethics of responsibility). The main evidence supporting this thesis is the key notion of “ontological revolution”, the development of whic…Read more
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861Sacrifice and Repentance as Self-Restraint. Hans Jonas’ Ethics for a Technological EpochToronto Journal of Jewish Thought 3. 2011.The present article tries to analyze the role played in Hans Jonas’ ethical reflection by religious—namely, Jewish—tradition. Jonas goes in search of an ultimate foundation for his ethics and his theory of the good in order to face the challenges currently posed by technology’s nihilistic attitude towards life and ethics. Jonas’ ethical investigation enters into the domain of metaphysics, which offers an incomparable contribution to the philosophical endeavour, without undermining its overall in…Read more
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399From Dualism to the Preservation of Ambivalence. Hans Jonas’ “Ontological Revolution” as the Background to his Ethics of ResponsibilityIn Catherine Larrère Eric Pommier (ed.), L'étique de la Vie Chez Hans Jonas, Publications De La Sorbonne. pp. 33-48. 2013.An attempt to achieve an overall interpretation of the thinking of Hans Jonas by utilising the notions of life, ambivalence and responsibility.
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439REFRAMING AND PRACTICING COMMUNITY INCLUSION: THE RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDRENChildhood and Philosophy 10 (20): 401-420. 2014.I wish to carry out a philosophical inquiry into contemporary intercultural public spheres. The thesis I will support is that the achievement of inclusive public spheres (namely, with respect to our European and Western experience, the accomplishment of democracy) largely depends on one’s willingness and capacity to foster an “appreciation of diversities” by first, enhancing policies and forms of cooperation between the citizens’ emotional and motivational resources, and then enhancing their cog…Read more
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220An Indivisible Existence. Complexity, Governance and Responsibility in the Global AgeGovernare la Paura. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 192-218. 2013.The article begins with the redefinition of complexity and risk. Indeed, phenomena such as earthquakes, pandemics, ecological emergencies, and issues related to the development of technology highlight the unique and reciprocal relationship between complexity and risk. However, modernity endeavoured to simplify complexity and to erase the connection of the latter with any issue concerning risk. Despite its negative results, whose ineffectiveness and dangerousness have at the present become unmist…Read more
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740Hans Jonas and Vasily Grossman: Reflections on the Human Condition after AuschwitzEthics in Progress 5 (2): 215-245. 2014.The article endeavours to compare the reflections on the Shoah of two of the most celebrated intellectuals of Jewish origin of the 20th century, namely the German philosopher Hans Jonas and the Soviet writer Vasily Grossman. Both Jonas’ essay on The Concept of God after Auschwitz and Grossman’s novels and reports, such as The Hell of Treblinka, Life and Fate, and The Sistine Madonna, are characterised by a thorough enquiry into the ambivalence of the human condition, that tries to shed some ligh…Read more
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do ParanáDepartment of Education and Human SciencesProfessor Adjunto
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |