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On Jean Amery provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the
most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Amery
(1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and
literary author. In the English-speaking world Amery is known for
his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of
exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years,
there has been a renewed interest in Amery's writings on
victimization and resentment, partly attributable to a modern
fascination with tolerance, historical injustice, and
reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of Amery's writing have
remained largely unexplored outside the realm of European
scholarship, and his legacy in English-language scholarship limited
to discussions of victimization and memory. This volume offers the
first English language collection of academic essays on the
post-Holocaust thought of Jean Amery. Comprehensive in scope and
multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central
aspects of Amery's philosophical and ethical position, including
dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness. What emerges
from the pages of this book is an image of Amery as a difficult and
perplexing-yet exceptionally engaging-thinker, whose writings
address some of the central paradoxes of survivorship and
witnessing. The intellectual and ethical questions of Amery's
philosophies are equally pertinent today as they were half-century
ago: How one can reconcile with the irreconcilable? How can one
account for the unaccountable? And, how can one live after
catastrophe?
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