Overview
- Explores the relationship between torture and suicide using the particular case study of Jean Améry
- Moves beyond expected content to discuss the healing process and ways to prevent similar cases in the future
- Sheds light on the connection to surviving torture and eventual suicide
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Limits: Bound to the Past
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Beyond: Philosophy and Literature
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About this book
This volume explores themes originating from the work of Jean Améry (1912–1978), a Holocaust survivor and essayist—mainly, ethics and the past, torture and its implications, death and suicide. The volume is interdisciplinary, bringing together contributions from philosophy, psychology, law, and literary studies to illuminate each of the topics from more than one angle. Each essay is a novel contribution, shedding new light on the relevant subject matter and on Jean Améry's unique perspective. The ensuing picture is rich and multifaceted, uncovering unforeseen traits of Amery's thought, and surprising correlations that have so far been under-researched. It invites further studies of the Holocaust and its consequences to take their cue from non-neutral first person reflections.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yochai Ataria is Senior Lecturer at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He is the author of The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017), Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018), The Mathematics of Trauma (in Hebrew, 2014), Not in our Brain (in Hebrew, 2019). He also co-edited the Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016); Kafka: New Perspectives (in Hebrew, 2013); The End of the Human Era (in Hebrew, 2016); 2001: A Space Odyssey – 50th Anniversary (in Hebrew, 2019)
Amit Kravitz teaches philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. He has published papers in Kant-Studien, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Philosophisches Jahrbuch, and the Journal for the History of Ideas. He was also the co-editor of Der Begriff des Judentums in der klassischen deutschen Philosophie (2018, with Dr. Jörg Noller).
Eli Pitcovski is Lecturer at Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel. His main fields of interest are epistemology, philosophy of representation and ontology, including the metaphysics of death. He has published in The Journal of Philosophy (“Normal Knowledge,” 2018, with Andrew Peet), Analysis (“Lost in Transmission,” 2017 with Andrew Peet), and Synthese (“Getting the Big Picture,” 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jean Améry
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Mind's Limits
Editors: Yochai Ataria, Amit Kravitz, Eli Pitcovski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28095-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28094-9Published: 25 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28097-0Published: 25 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28095-6Published: 13 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 345
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Emotion, Psychoanalysis, Victimology, History of Psychology