Jonasian Gnosticism
This article proposes that Jonas’s understanding of gnosticism differs substantially from the account typically associated with him. That standard account takes the basic tenets of existentialism as the foundation to its discussion of alienated individuality, whereas Jonas’s system uses neo-Kantian...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2023, Volume: 116, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-122 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jonas, Hans 1903-1993
/ Gnostic
/ Existentialism
/ Neo-Kantianism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BF Gnosticism KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Philosophy of Life
B Heidegger B Neo-Kantianism B Manichaeism B Early Christianity B Hans Jonas B Gnosticism B Existentialism |
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| Summary: | This article proposes that Jonas’s understanding of gnosticism differs substantially from the account typically associated with him. That standard account takes the basic tenets of existentialism as the foundation to its discussion of alienated individuality, whereas Jonas’s system uses neo-Kantian epistemology to construct both alienation and individuality out of a unified field of human interaction. Within his framework, gnosticism is a single historical-philosophical episode of inauthenticity, highly influential yet isolated in time, unlike the ubiquitous understanding of it. This article reviews Jonas’s system, elements of its early and later acceptance, along with selected issues raised by critics, from Heidegger and Scholem to Colpe, Yamauchi, Williams, and King. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000056 |