Jean Améry : beyond the mind's limits /: beyond the mind's limits. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yochai Ataria, Amit Kravitz, Eli Pitcovski, editors.
• Editors: Ataria, Yochai; Kravitz, Amit; Pitcovski, Eli
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 345 pages.)
• Subjects: 838/.91409; Clinical Psychology; Emotion; Psychoanalysis; Victimology; History of Psychology; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030280956; 3030280950
• Related ISBNs: 9783030280949
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2019).
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