On Jean Améry

Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory for the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney.

• 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.