Are We Creating a “World Without Us”? : Global Responsibility and Annihilism in the Works of Günther Anders, Karl Jaspers, and Hans Jonas
This essay argues that the concept of global responsibility, as articulated in the works of Karl Jaspers and Hans Jonas, was anticipated in Günther Anders' 1956 opus, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen. By tracing the phases of Anders' negative anthropology—from his pathology of freedom to the Promethean differential andhis critique of what he considers to be an annihilistic Western stance—I examine
