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

by Jean-Marie, Vivaldi
ISBN: 9783030405465
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This book elaborates Jean Am ry'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 Am ry 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 Am ry'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 Am ry's engagement with key philosophical figures. On the other hand, it shows how thoroughly Am ry denounces the limits of the philosophical enterprise, and its impotence in capturing and accounting for the crimes of the Third Reich.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Jean-Marie, Vivaldi
  • ISBN: 9783030405465
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.27 x 0.34
  • Number Of Pages: 147
  • Publication Year: 2019
Language: English