In this volume, Ilit Ferber offers the first comprehensive philosophical study of Jean Améry's oeuvre. A Holocaust survivor and lifelong exile, Améry is best known for At the Mind's Limits (1966), his searing reflection on Auschwitz. Yet the prominence of this work has often obscured the breadth of his thought. Read together with On Aging (1968) and On Suicide (1976), as well as his essays on literature and culture, a fuller picture emerges: Améry's writings form...

In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities.Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left features a collection of essays by Améry trans...

»Das sowohl politische wie jüdische Opfer, das ich war und bin, kann nicht schweigen, wenn unter dem Banner des Anti-Zionismus der alte miserable Antisemitismus sich wieder hervorwagt.« Jean Améry»Ein Klassiker der Zukunft« Jürg Altwegg, FAZ»Man soll und darf die Vergangenheit nicht auf sich beruhen lassen, weil sie sonst auferstehen und zu neuer Gegenwärtigkeit werden könnte.« Jean AméryJean Amérys Essa...

This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience "is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience" ( Newsweek)."Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world."At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival—mental, moral, and physical—through the enormity of t...

Con inesorabile precisione e passione di verità, Améry registrò in questa sua vertiginosa discesa nell'abisso concentrazionario le disfatte dello spirito, a cominciare dalla peculiare inferiorità nella quale venne a trovarsi nel Lager. L'inadeguatezza alla dimensione meramente fisica cui a Auschwitz era ridotta la vita lo rese paria tra i paria. Era un intellettuale, un uomo infinitamente più indifeso rispetto a chi, come i credenti di qualsiasi fede o i militanti di ogni ideologia, possie...

In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities.Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left features a collection of essays by Améry trans...

This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Améry (1912–1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist—mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide. The volume is interdisciplinary, bringing together contributions from philosophy, psychology, law, and literary studies to illuminate each of the topics from more than one angle. Each essay is a novel contribution, shedding new light on the relevant subject matter and on Jean Améry's unique perspecti...

Fans of Flaubert's Madame Bovary will want to read this reimagination of one of literature's most famous failures, Charles Bovary. Part fiction, part philosophy, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is also a book about love.Charles Bovary, Country Doctor is one of the most unusual projects in twentieth-century literature: a novel-essay devoted to salvaging poor bungler Charles Bovary, the pathetic, laughable, cuckolded husband of Madame Bovary...

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...

Almost eighty years have passed since Jean Améry was taken by the gestapo and interrogated at Fort Breendonk in Antwerp, and yet the world today may not seem much different. In Emory Klann's new translation, Améry's experience and insight into the human condition under duress captures the horrors of the Nazi while also sculpting the process of perseverance and stoic strength. Torture is both a documentation of the act as witnessed by Améry, but also an accounting of the anguish and realiza...

This book elaborates Jean Améry’s critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind’s Limits and his other writings. It shows how Améry elaborates the shortcomings and unfitness of philosophical theories to account for torture, the experience of homelessness, and other indignities, and their inability to assist with overcoming resentment. It thus teases out the philosophical import of Jean Améry's critique of philosophy, which constitute...

Dieses Buch bildet die Quintessenz aus 35 Jahren Beschäftigung Kestings mit Leben und Werk Jean Amérys. Jean Amérys Auschwitz-Essay »Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne" gilt als Schlüsselwerk über den Zivilisationsbruch des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Es war nicht das erste Buch des Autors, aber dasjenige, das ihn schlagartig berühmt machte. Sein Nachdenken über die Folter und deren Nachwirken ist bis heute maßgeblich und in seiner Aktualität bedrängend, es wird zitiert, wann immer über dieses Th...