{"product_id":"hans-jonas-lewis-coyne-9781350216662","title":"Hans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility","description":"Hans Jonas (1903-1993) was one of the most important German-Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Martin Heidegger and close friend of Hannah Arendt, Jonas advanced the fields of phenomenology and practical ethics in ways that are just beginning to be appreciated in the English-speaking world. Drawing here on unpublished and newly translated material, Lewis Coyne brings together for the first time in English Jonas's philosophy of life, ethic of responsibility, political theory, philosophy of technology and bioethics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHans Jonas: Life, Technology and the Horizons of Responsibility, \u003c\/i\u003eCoyne argues that the aim of Jonas's philosophy is to confront three critical issues inherent to modernity: nihilism, the ecological crisis and the transhumanist drive to biotechnologically enhance human beings. While these might at first appear disparate, for Jonas all follow from the materialist turn taken by Western thought from the 17th century onwards, and he therefore seeks to tackle all three issues at their collective point of origin. This book explores how Jonas develops a new categorical imperative of responsibility on the basis of an ontology that does justice to the purposefulness and dignity of life: to act in a way that does not compromise the future of humanity on earth. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflecting on this, as we face a potential future of ecological and societal collapse, Coyne forcefully demonstrates the urgency of Jonas's demand that humanity accept its newfound responsibility as the 'shepherd of beings'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lewis Coyne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350216666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350216662\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Lewis Coyne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43944853799167,"sku":"9781350216662","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_92fa2432-03e1-49df-abc9-a5e39ce07192.jpg?v=1681505403","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hans-jonas-lewis-coyne-9781350216662","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}