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

Autor Vivaldi Jean-Marie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 dec 2019
This book elaborates Jean Améry’s critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes inAt the Mind’s Limitsand 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 constitutes his own philosophical testament of being an inmate at Auschwitz. This book situatesAt the Mind’s Limitsin the context of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. On the one hand, it elaborates Améry’s engagement with key philosophical figures. On the other hand, it shows how thoroughly Améry denounces the limits of the philosophical enterprise, and its impotence in capturing and accounting for the crimes of the Third Reich. 

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030405465
ISBN-10: 303040546X
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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                                                                                                                         


Notă biografică

Vivaldi Jean-Marieis 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 ofFanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism(2007),Kierkegaard: Historyand 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.
 


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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 constitutes his own philosophical testament of being an inmate at Auschwitz. This book situates At the Mind’s Limits in the context of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. On the one hand, it elaborates Améry’s engagement with key philosophical figures. On the other hand, it shows how thoroughly Améry denounces the limits of the philosophical enterprise, and its impotence in capturing and accounting for the crimes of the Third Reich. 


Caracteristici

Explores Jean Améry’s critique of philosophy, as well as some central philosophical themes in his writings

Argues thatAt the Mind’s Limitsoffers a unique perspective onto the Holocaust and its cultural and ethical aftermaths 

Situates selected parts ofAt the Mind’s Limitsin a conversation with those European philosophers and traditions that influenced Améry