The philosopher of Auschwitz : Jean Améry and living with the holocaust /
Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documents, Heidelberger-Leonard illuminates the turbulent life of this complex figure, from his modest origins in pre-war Austria; his flight from his homeland to join the Austrian Resistance in Belgium; his imprisonment in Auschwitz and his liberati...
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I. B. Tauris,
2010
London ; New York : New York : I. B. Tauris ; Distributed in the US and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 London ; New York : c2010 London ; New York : New York : 2010 London : 2010 |
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| Summary: | Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documents, Heidelberger-Leonard illuminates the turbulent life of this complex figure, from his modest origins in pre-war Austria; his flight from his homeland to join the Austrian Resistance in Belgium; his imprisonment in Auschwitz and his liberation in Belsen; his return to Brussels in 1945 to his eventual suicide in Salzburg in 1978. This definitive biography examines how Amery grappled with what it meant to be both a victim and survivor of the concentration camps and what his experiences there reveal about the tension between human dignity and the reality of horror. Focusing chiefly on Amery's literary works, one of the book's great strengths lies in exploring how every aspect of Amery's life and thought is inextricably connected with his writings. -- This biography brilliantly demonstrates the importance of Amery in his own time and shows how his relevance extends far beyond. --Book Jacket Who was Jean Amery? Victim or survivor? Agnostic or Jew? Austrian or exile? Philosopher or novelist? Jean Amery is not easy to classify but what this biography (the first available in English) 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 twentieth century. -- |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Translation from the German, originally published under title: Jean Améry : Revolte in der Resignation (Stuttgart, 2004) |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-268) and indexes Includes bibliographical references and index Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1848851502 (hbk.) 1848851502 9781848851504 (hbk.) 9781848851504 |