Jean Améry Beyond the Mind's Limits /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ataria, Yochai (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kravitz, Amit (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pitcovski, Eli (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Clinical psychology.; Emotions.; Psychoanalysis.; Victimology.; Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Emotion.; History of Psychology.

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 lit...

Table of Contents:

• 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.