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On Jean Améry
Philosophy of Catastrophe
124,99 € |
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Verlag: | Lexington Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 16.10.2011 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9780739147672 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 344 |
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<span><span><span>On Jean Améry</span><span> provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in Améry's writings on victimization and resentment, partly attributable to a modern fascination with tolerance, historical injustice, and reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of Améry's writing have remained largely unexplored outside the realm of European scholarship, and his legacy in English-language scholarship limited to discussions of victimization and memory.<br><br>This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness. What emerges from the pages of this book is an image of Amèry as a difficult and perplexing-yet exceptionally engaging-thinker, whose writings address some of the central paradoxes of survivorship and witnessing. The intellectual and ethical questions of Améry's philosophies are equally pertinent today as they were half-century ago: How one can reconcile with the irreconcilable? How can one account for the unaccountable? And, how can one live after catastrophe?<br></span></span><br><span></span></span>
<span><span><span>This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness.</span></span><br><span></span></span>
<span><span><span>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction<br>Chapter 1: The Wounded Subject,</span><span>Anagram</span><span>: On the Philosophy of "Subjectivity After Auschwitz" in Améry's Work<br>Chapter 2: Contemplating Jean Améry's Loss of Transcendence<br>Chapter 3: Améry's Body: "My Calamity . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity"<br>Chapter 4: Politics and Personal Responsibility: Reflections on Jean Améry and Hannah Arendt<br>Chapter 5: Resentment and Recognition: Toward a New Conception of Humanity in Améry's </span><span>At the Mind's Limits</span><span><br>Chapter 6: Imposition, or Writing from the Void: Pathos and Pathology in Améry<br>Chapter 7: </span><span>Ver-rücktes</span><span> Universe of Torture: Améry and Bataille<br>Chapter 8: Aufbrechen / Abbrechen: Autobiography, History, and Self-destruction in Jean Améry's Novel-Essay </span><span>Lefeu oder der Abbruch</span><span><br>Chapter 9: "Nachdenken"<br>Chapter 10: The Singular Case of Jean Améry<br>Chapter 11:Sympathy for the Devil<br>Chapter 12: Saying No and Feeling Nowhere. Jean Améry's Introspection of Voluntary Death<br>Chapter 13: Suffering and Responsibility: Between Améry and Levinas<br>About the Contributors</span></span></span>
<span><span><span>Magdalena Zolkos</span><span> is research fellow in political theory for the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney.<br></span></span><br><span></span></span>