Reflections on Jean Améry: Torture, Resentment, and Homelessness as the Mind's Limits

by Vivaldi Jean-Marie

This book elaborates Jean Am?ry's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings. It shows how Am?ry 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030023443
• ISBN13: 9783030023447
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"