Reflections on Jean Améry: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind's Limits

ISBN-13: 9783030405465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 147 str.

Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Memory, the Jewish Intellectual and Cartesian Cogito

Chapter 2: Torture & Homelessness: The Horrible Can Make No Claim to Singularity

Chapter 3: Améry and Nietzsche on Resentment, Collective Guilt, and Historical Revisionism

Chapter 4: Améry and Sartre: The Necessity and Impossibility of Being an Authentic Jew

Chapter 5: Conclusion

O autorze

Vivaldi Jean-Marie is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He also holds an ongoing appointment as an adjunct Professor of Philosophy and African-American Studies at the IRAAS at Columbia University. He is the author of Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism (2007), Kierkegaard: History and Eternal Happiness (2008), and Voodoo Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel (2018). He has published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Gnosis, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Souls, and The CLR James Journal. He was Scholar-in-Residence at Hertford College, Oxford University during the Summer 2015.