On Jean Améry

Philosophy of Catastrophe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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On Jean Améry 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.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?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-12-09
Mått164 x 239 x 26 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739147658

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Wounded Subject,Anagram: On the Philosophy of "Subjectivity After Auschwitz" in Améry's WorkChapter 2: Contemplating Jean Améry's Loss of TranscendenceChapter 3: Améry's Body: "My Calamity . . . My Physical and Metaphysical Dignity"Chapter 4: Politics and Personal Responsibility: Reflections on Jean Améry and Hannah ArendtChapter 5: Resentment and Recognition: Toward a New Conception of Humanity in Améry's At the Mind's LimitsChapter 6: Imposition, or Writing from the Void: Pathos and Pathology in AméryChapter 7: Ver-rücktes Universe of Torture: Améry and BatailleChapter 8: Aufbrechen / Abbrechen: Autobiography, History, and Self-destruction in Jean Améry's Novel-Essay Lefeu oder der AbbruchChapter 9: "Nachdenken"Chapter 10: The Singular Case of Jean AméryChapter 11:Sympathy for the DevilChapter 12: Saying No and Feeling Nowhere. Jean Améry's Introspection of Voluntary DeathChapter 13: Suffering and Responsibility: Between Améry and LevinasAbout the Contributors

This volume, a welcome addition to scholarship on Jean Améry, examines his work from various perspectives. The collection consists of essays analyzing Améry's œuvre from a philosophical, linguistic, and literary point of view. Scholars from Australia, the United States, Canada, Poland, Denmark, and Austria draw on a wide variety of theoretical frameworks, entering into a cross-disciplinary dialogue with each other, while employing the latest research findings to bring Améry's often forceful, provocative argumentation into focus. Whereas his essays have hitherto received attention in the German-speaking world, Zolkos' merit has been to assemble contributions in English about the œuvre of this survivor of Auschwitz. It is rewarding to see Améry's essayistic, journalistic and literary work, which continues to be relevant in today's world, finally granted the global attention it merits.