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- Title
GNOSIS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RACISM RE-APPRAISING HANS JONAS AS A POLITICAL THINKER.
- Authors
Baruchello, Giorgio
- Abstract
This article highlights the political elements contained in Hans Jonas' vast and internally diverse oeuvre. To this end, it follows chronologically Jonas' intellectual career and most significant first-person political experiences, especially but not exclusively with reference to his involvement in World War II. A speech on racism, delivered in Italy a few months before his death in 1993, is used as the ideal conclusion of a politically aware philosophical trajectory that begins with Jonas' perplexity vis-à-vis the Gnostic rejection of corporeal existence, continues with his concerns regarding the fundamentally irresponsible use of sciencetechnology in contemporary society, and ends with genuine hope in the rediscovery of global human solidarity as a morally correct response to the ecological catastrophe that science-technology has unleashed.
- Publication
Appraisal, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal