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

• Main Author: Jean-Marie, Vivaldi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; World War, 1939-1945.; Judaism and culture.; Philosophy of Man.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Jewish Cultural Studies.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Memory, the Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito
• 2. Torture and Homelessness: The Horrible Can Make No Claim to Singularity
• 3. Améry and Nietzsche on Resentment, Collective Guilt, and Historical Revisionism
• 4. Améry and Sartre: The Necessity and Impossibility of Being an Authentic Jew
• 5. Conclusion. .