Jean Améry Beyond the Mind's Limits /
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| Zusammenfassung: | XIX, 345 p. text |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online-Zugang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28095-6 |
| Format: | Elektronisch Buch |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.