RT Article
T1 Jonasian Gnosticism
JF Harvard theological review
VO 116
IS 1
SP 91
OP 122
A1 Sariel, Aviram
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1833839323
AB 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.
K1 Hans Jonas
K1 Heidegger
K1 Manichaeism
K1 Early Christianity
K1 Existentialism
K1 Gnosticism
K1 Neo-Kantianism
K1 Philosophy of Life
DO 10.1017/S0017816023000056