Jean Améry : beyond the mind's limits /
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Limits: Bound to the Past
- 1. Jean Am?ry and Primo Levi: The Differences in Likeness
- 2. On Historical Objectivity, the Reality of Evil and Moral Kitsch: Jean Am?ry as a Witness
- 3. Jean Am?ry and the Generational Limits of Resentment as Morality
- 4. Registers of Undesirability, Poetics of Detention: Jean Am?ry on the Jewish Exile and Behrouz Boochani on the Manus Prison
- 5. The Ethics of Resentment: The Tactlessness of Jean Am?ry
- Part II The Mind: Torture and Consequences
- 6. ?They Tortured Because They Were Torturers?
- 7. Torture: Reading Am?ry, Rereading Jewish Law
- 8. Total destruction: The case of Jean Am?ry
- 9. Language in Exile, Exile in Language: Reflections on Jean Am?ry?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 Am?ry?s Reluctant Philosophy
- 12. Jean Am?ry on the Value of Death and Dying
- 13. Jean Am?ry: 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 Am?ry the Dichter
- 16. Realism Contested: Jean Am?ry?s Charles Bovary, Country Doctor.