Reflections on Jean Améry

Vivaldi Jean-Marie 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 Fanon: Collective Ethics and Humanism (2007), Kierkegaard: History and Eternal Happiness (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.

• 1. Memory, the Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito.- 2. Torture and Homelessness: The Horrible Can Make No Claim to Singularity.- 3. Améry and Nietzsche on Resentment, Collective Guilt, and Historical Revisionism.- 4. Améry and Sartre: The Necessity and Impossibility of Being an Authentic Jew.- 5. Conclusion.