At the Mind's Limits (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor
128
Utgivningsdatum
2009-03-23
Förlag
Indiana University Press
Översättare
Stella P Rosenfeld, Sidney Rosenfeld
Dimensioner
234 x 155 x 10 mm
Vikt
220 g
ISBN
9780253211736

At the Mind's Limits

Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-03-23
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"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi "The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." -Irving Howe, New Republic "This remarkable memoir. . .is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience. With the ear of a poet and the eye of a novelist, Amery vividly communicates the wonder of a philosopher-a wonder here aroused by the 'dark riddle' of the Nazi regime and its systematic sadism." -Jim Miller, Newsweek "Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world. The shame of destruction cannot be erased. Trust in the world, which already collapsed in part at the first blow, but in the end, under torture, fully, will not be regained. That one's fellow man was experienced as the antiman remains in the tortured person as accumulated horror. It blocks the view into a world in which the principle of hope rules. One who was martyred is a defenseless prisoner of fear. It is fear that henceforth reigns over him." -Jean Amery At the Mind's Limits is the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survival-mental, moral, and physical-through the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual's fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision.
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    Lotta Leijonhufvud, 17 juli 2014

    För alla med traumatiska erfarenheter är Överlevarnas berättelser stora kunskapskällor och stor tröst. Att minnas Förintelsen på ett praktiskt och moraliskt plan, utöver stelnande minnesceremonier.

    Jean Améry, som dessutom är en verkligt intellektuell människa, har dessutom förmåga att förmedla skillnaderna - och beroendet - mellan kropp, själ, psyke och intellekt. Exvis hur fysisk nedbrytning även resulterar i en intellektuell nedbrytning.

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Jean Amery (1912-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance Movement. He was caught by the Germans in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. He was author of seven volumes of essays and two novels. He committed suicide in 1978. Sidney Rosenfeld, Ph.D., Professor of German at Oberlin College, and Stella P. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., are cotranslators of Radical Humanism by Jean Amery and Jewish Life in Germany edited by M. Richarz.