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On Jean Améry : philosophy of catastrophe /

On Jean Améry : philosophy of catastrophe / edited by Magdalena Żółkoś. - Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 319 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Index; About the Contributors

On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry 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 Améry's writings on victimization and resentment, partly attributable to a modern fascination with tolerance, historical injustice, and reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of.

9780739147672 0739147676

2021697316


Améry, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
Améry, Jean


LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.


Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PT2601.M4

838/.91409