Sometimes, pace the Lord, a prophet is honored only in his native land. So suggests the case of Hans Jonas, a philosopher whose prophetic warnings in the 1970s about dangers to the environment earned him fame in his native Germany and even played a part in inspiring a political movement there, the German Green Party. By contrast, Jonas is hardly a household name in the United S (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
A Marginal Jew
MemoirsHans JonasEdited by Christian Wiese, Translated by Krishna WinstonBrandeis University Press, $35, 320 pp.God InterruptedHeresy and the European Imagination between the World WarsBenjamin LazierPrinceton University Press, $29.95, 270 pp.
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