Mortality and morality:A Search for Good After Auschwitz

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor´s Introduction: Hans Jonas´ Exodus: from German Existentialism to Post-Holocaust Theology 1
Prologue: Philosophy at the End of the Century: Retrospect and Prospect 41

Pt. 1 The Need of Reason: Grounding an Imperative of Responsibility in the Phenomenon of Life
1 Evolution and Freedom: On the Continuity Among Life-Forms 59
2 Tool, Image, and Grave: On What Is Beyond the Animal in Man 75
3 The Burden and Blessing of Mortality 87
4 Toward an Ontological Grounding of an Ethics for the Future 99

Pt. 2 A Luxury of Reason: Theological Speculations After Auschwitz
5 Immortality and the Modern Temper 115
6 The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice 131
7 Is Faith Still Possible?: Memories of Rudolf Bultmann and Reflections on the Philosophical Aspects of His Work 144
8 Matter, Mind, and Creation: Cosmological Evidence and Cosmogonic Speculation 165
Epilogue: The Outcry of Mute Things 198
Notes 203
Bibliography 213
Index 217