Le radici antropologiche del pensiero di Hans Jonas

This contribution examines the anthropological roots of Hans Jonas’s thought, showing how The Phenomenon of Life can be understood within the tradition of German philosophical anthropology, despite the absence of explicit references to its main figures. The article situates Jonas’s work within a lineage running from Scheler and Plessner to Port- mann, highlighting the continuity between his philosophical biology and the Plessner–Portmann line. It emphasizes the centrality of the organism as a philosophical category capable of overcoming Cartesian dualism and reductionist views of life, thereby allowing subjectivity to be rethought as a grad- ed and immanent dimension. Within this framework, human specificity appears as a radicalized tendency already inscribed in life.