Memoirs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993
Other Authors: Wiese, Christian, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Hanover : Brandeis University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, [2008]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Series:Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Youth in Münchengladbach during wartime
  • Dreams of glory: the road to Zionism
  • Between philosophy and Zion: Freiburg, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel
  • Marburg: under the spell of Heidegger and gnosticism
  • Emigration, refuge, and friends in Jerusalem
  • Love in times of war
  • A "Bellum Judaicum" in the truest sense of the word
  • Travels through a Germany in ruins
  • From Israel to the New World: launching an academic career
  • Friendships and encounters in New York
  • Taking leave of Heidegger
  • On the value and dignity of life: philosophy of the organic and ethics of responsibility
  • "All this is mere stammering": Auschwitz and God's impotence
  • Didactic letters to Lore Jonas, 1944-45.