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Explores Jean Améry’s critique of philosophy, as well as some central philosophical themes in his writings
Argues that At the Mind’s Limits offers a unique perspective onto the Holocaust and its cultural and ethical aftermaths
Situates selected parts of At the Mind’s Limits in a conversation with those European philosophers and traditions that influenced Améry
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
Vivaldi Jean-Marie
About the author
Vivaldi Jean-Marie is 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 of Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism (2007), Kierkegaard: History and 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reflections on Jean Améry
Book Subtitle: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind’s Limits
Authors: Vivaldi Jean-Marie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02345-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02344-7Published: 06 December 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40546-5Published: 18 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02345-4Published: 27 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 147
Topics: Philosophy of Man, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish Cultural Studies