Jean Améry: Beyond the Mind's Limits

ISBN-13: 9783030280970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 345 str.

Yochai Ataria; Amit Kravitz; Eli Pitcovski

Spis treści

Part I Limits: Bound to the Past.- 1. Jean Améry and Primo Levi: The Differences in Likeness.- 2. On Historical Objectivity, the Reality of Evil and Moral Kitsch: Jean Améry as a Witness.- 3. Jean Améry and the Generational Limits of Resentment as Morality.- 4. Registers of Undesirability, Poetics of Detention: Jean Améry on the Jewish Exile and Behrouz Boochani on the Manus Prison.- 5. The Ethics of Resentment: The Tactlessness of Jean Améry.- Part II The Mind: Torture and Consequences.- 6. “They Tortured Because They Were Torturers”.- 7. Torture: Reading Améry, Rereading Jewish Law.- 8. Total destruction: The case of Jean Améry.- 9. Language in Exile, Exile in Language: Reflections on Jean Améry’s Essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?”.- 10. The Healing Power of Imagination: Playfulness in Impossible Situations.- Part III Beyond: Philosophy and Literature.- 11. “In an Uncertain Twilight:”  On Jean Améry’s Reluctant Philosophy.- 12. Jean Améry on the Value of Death and Dying.- 13. Jean Améry: Suicide, The Refusal to Heal, and Humanistic Freedom.- 14. Yael Lavi Between the Logic of Life and the Anti-Logic of Death.- 15. “The nonsense that you cannot write poetry after Auschwitz...” Jean Améry the Dichter.- 16. Realism Contested: Jean Améry’s Charles Bovary, Country Doctor.

O autorze

Yochai Ataria is Senior Lecturer at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017), Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018), The Mathematics of Trauma (in Hebrew, 2014), Not in our Brain (in Hebrew, 2019). He also co-edited the Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016); Kafka: New Perspectives (in Hebrew, 2013); The End of the Human Era (in Hebrew, 2016); 2001: A Space Odyssey – 50th Anniversary (in Hebrew, 2019)

Amit Kravitz teaches philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He has published papers in Kant-Studien, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, and the Journal for the History of Ideas.  He was also the co-editor of Der Begriff des Judentums in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie (2018, with Dr. Jörg Noller).

Eli Pitcovski is Lecturer at Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel. His main fields of interest are epistemology, philosophy of representation and ontology, including the metaphysics of death. He has published in The Journal of Philosophy (“Normal Knowledge,” 2018, with Andrew Peet), Analysis (“Lost in Transmission,” 2017 with Andrew Peet), and Synthese (“Getting the Big Picture,” 2017).

Blurb

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 perspective. The ensuing picture is rich and multifaceted, uncovering unforeseen traits of Amery's thought, and surprising correlations that have so far been under-researched. It invites further studies of the Holocaust and its consequences to take their cue from non-neutral first person reflections.