Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:35:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Michael Heine <mheine-AT-acx.ucalgary.ca> Subject: Re: Jonas' Imperative of Responsibility Jonas, Hans, The imperative of responsibility: foundations of an ethics for the technological age, with an appendix on the impotence or power of subjectivity / Hans Jonas ; translated by Hans Jonas, with the collaboration of David Herr Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984. ------------------------------------------------------ TO REPLY: REPLACE 'X' WITH 'S' ------------------------------------------------------ Michael Heine mheine University of Calgary at Calgary, Alberta acs Canada ucalgary ca On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Sigmund Rivkin-Fish wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Jose Alias wrote: > > > I have come across the name of Hans Jonas referring to his 'Imperative of > > Responsibility', but I couldn't find it, so I would be glad if someone introduce > > me his main ideas. > > Thanks, > > Jose. > > Jose. I am not familiar with the term 'imperative of responsibility', but > I presume you are referring to Hans Joas (and not Jonas). He has written > an important book about pragmatism, and has recently had his *Creativity > of Action* translated into English. I have only read the latter, and > participated in a theory discussion group with him at the New School for > Social Research where he is currently visiting. His general project is > nothing less than a reconstruction of a new theory of action grounded in > Pragmatism (especially Dewey). He combines Merleu-Ponty's writings of > bodily phenomenology with American pragmatism's insistance on the > creative, situation-embedded, dialogic, bodily engagement with reality. > There are a lot of affinities with Giddens and maybe even more with > Bourdieu (on the body, but Bourdieu tends not to be overly interested in > the situation-embedded problematic any longer [although it is there in > *Outline* and in *Logic*], and there isn't much in Bourdieu about > creativity [although there is the germs of a theory of creativity in his > writings on Flaubert]). Let me know if you want a more detailed summary of > his argument in *The Creativity of Action*, and his views on Bourdieu. > > Ziggy Fish > Dept. of Sociology > Princeton University > > ********************************************************************** > Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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