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Not for Mothers Only
Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing
edited by
Catherine Wagner and
Rebecca Wolff
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Because Jonas’s life spanned the entire twentieth century, this memoir provides nuanced pictures of German Jewry during the Weimar Republic, of German Zionism, of the Jewish emigrants in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s, and of German Jewish émigré intellectuals in New York. In addition, Jonas outlines the development of his work, beginning with his studies under Husserl and Heidegger and extending through his later metaphysical speculations about “God after Auschwitz.”
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The Life and Thought
of Hans Jonas
Wiese’s study examines how Jonas’s Jewish background influenced his intellectual development. Wiese shows how philosophical ethics and Jewish identity were two inseparable aspects of his thinking, with the fight against Nihilism as the most important link.
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Overall, the book succeeds despite its dry...because of the depth of the research and the details offered in photos and such. Those details make this a book well worth reading.
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