Reflections on Jean Améry

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<p></p><p>This book elaborates Jean Amérys critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in<i>At the Minds Limits</i>and his other writings. It shows how Améry elaborates the shortcomings and unfitness of philosophical theories to account for torture, the experience of homelessness, and other indignities, and their inability to assist with overcoming resentment. It thus teases out the philosophical import of Jean Améry's critique of philosophy, which constitutes his own philosophical testament of being an inmate at Auschwitz. This book situates<i>At the Minds Limits</i> in the context of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. On the one hand, it elaborates Amérys engagement with key philosophical figures. On the other hand, it shows how thoroughly Améry denounces the limits of the philosophical enterprise, and its impotence in capturing and accounting for the crimes of the Third Reich. <br></p><p></p>

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<p></p><p></p><p><b>Vivaldi Jean-Marie</b> is a Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. He also holds an ongoing appointment as an adjunct Professor of Philosophy and African-American Studies at the IRAAS at Columbia University. He is the author of <i>Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism</i> (2007), <i>Kierkegaard: History</i> <i>and Eternal Happiness</i> (2008), and Voodoo Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel (2018). He has published articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Gnosis, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Souls, and The CLR James Journal. He was Scholar-in-Residence at Hertford College, Oxford University during the Summer 2015.</p> <p> </p> <p></p><p></p>

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