The Philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust Contributor(s): Heidelberger-Leonard, Irene (Author), Bell, Anthea (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1848851502 ISBN-13: 9781848851504 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $60.39 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Europe - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2010284023 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.41 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Who was Jean Amery? Victim or survivor? Agnostic or Jew? Austrian or exile? Philosopher or journalist? Jean Amery is not easy to classify but what this biography (the first in any language) demonstrates is that he is more - far more - than some enigmatic cult figure: he is one of the most influential of Holocaust survivors and one of the most provocative writers and thinkers of the 20th century. Jean Amery - born Hans Maier in Austria in 1912 - is perhaps best known for his seminal work, At the Mind's Limits, one of the central texts on what Amery himself described as 'the subjective state of the victim.' But as Irene Heidelberger-Leonard's book reveals, Amery was not just a 'professional concentration camper', as he sometimes dubbed himself in a mixture of mockery and resignation. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documents, Heidelberger-Leonard illuminates the turbulent life of this complex figure, from his middle class origins in pre-war Austria; his flight from his homeland to join the Resistance; his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Belsen; to his eventual suicide in 1978. |