The philosopher of Auschwitz : Jean Améry and living with the Holocaust
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The philosopher of Auschwitz : Jean Améry and living with the Holocaust
I.B. Tauris, 2010
- : hardback
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Includes indexes
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内容説明
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 Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documents, Heidelberger-Leonard illuminates the turbulent life of this complex figure, from his middle class origins in pre-war Austria; his flight from his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.
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.
目次
1. VILLAGE IDYLL (1912-1924) - Bad Ischl and the Magic of the Forest
Hohenems: certificate of citizenship and ostensible homeland . The family . Early years in Vienna . Hans and Ernst Mayer: friends in life and death . Bad Ischl . Who or what is a Jew? . A divided heart . Winter world versus summer world . The tribulations of the young grammar-school boy
2. ZIRKUSGASSE 48 (1924-1935) - The Enticements of Reason
Leopold Langhammer, Mayer's mentor . Red Vienna . First encounters: Broch, Canetti, and the Austrian literary scene . Hans Mayer's personal revolution . Approaches to the Wiener Kreis [Vienna Circle] . The future writer . Die Brucke
3. HANS MAYER AS A WRITER OF FICTION - Die Schiffbruchigen [The Shipwrecked], 1935/45
1935 Preludes . The first novel . Autobiography as historical writing . Althager - an alter ego? . The relationship to 'the other' . Genophobia . 'Art should not describe life, but create life' . 1945: To be or not to be . Auschwitz - a mass fate? . The Auschwitz discourse then and now
4. YEARS OF WANDERING (1938-1945) - The Mind Knows no Limits
Vienna before and after the Anschluss . Antwerp (1939-1940) . St. Cyprien - Gurs (1940-1941) . Flight to occupied Belgium . Resistance in Brussels . Breendonck (1943) . Torture in his novel (1945) . Torture in the essay (12965) . Auschwitz - Dora-Mittelbau - Bergen Belsen (1944-1945) . Jean Amery / Primo Levi - an excursus . Friends strange to each other . Coming home to no home
5. LIVING ON - BUT HOW AND WHERE? (1945-1955) - The principle of education
The original theme of suicide: Love's Crown of Thorns: variation 1 . Heinrich Greyt: variation 2 . Die Selbstmoerder: variation 3 . Kleist: variation 4 . Die Eingemauerten [The Immured]: variation 5 . Existentialism in France. Revolution of the mind? Fashion? Or the twilight of the 'esprit francais'? . 'On the Psychology of the German People': revenge? . Neither guilt nor atonement . Deranged criminals . Work will not make you free . Letter of farewell to Knut Hamsun . Where now? His fixed point: Maria Leitner . Vienna? Bad Ischl? The 'indissoluble boyhood friendship' . Cologne? Comrade Heinz Kuhn . Dangerous games with identity . Lore's London? ' Sartre's Paris? . Zurich and the Dukas press agency? . Brussels old and new . The Adelboden sanatorium . Journalistic confectionery
6. JEAN AMERY THE JOURNALIST (1955-1965) - All Active on the Western Front
Portraits of famous contemporaries . Vive la science! . Jazz - heightened emotion . Stars of the fifties . Revelations . Gerhart Hauptmann, especially the negative aspects . Preface to the Future . Inventory . Alternative memory . The 'engine' of a culture? . France's cultural mission to the world . Jean-Paul Sartre - First excursus . Sartre - writer of the Resistance . Sartre - the teacher of life . Sartre - the teacher of thinking . The first idea for Charles Bovary . Sartre - the mouthpiece of the wartime generation . 'Le faux, c'est la mort' . 'The God that failed' . America's political sense of mission . In the name of the Cold War . The abolition of death, the glorification of sex . America's cultural contribution: sociology . England between Europe and America? . England's not so splendid isolation . Germany - an upswing through anaesthetization . First visit: Hitler never existed . Germany 1945, Germany 1952 . A cultural miracle? . No revocation of history . German thinkers after 1945 . German writers after 1945 . A break with emigration . No pact between reader and author . Hope and the second generation
7. DRAMA OF THE MIND IN THREE ACTS - the autobiographical trilogy
Prologue . Heissenbuttel and the consequences . Who brings whom to the meeting?. If not now, when? . The Auschwitz trial . A star is born . Act I: At the Mind's Limits (1966): Auschwitz and the Intellectual . The single useful starting point: the 'I' . Less than welcome approval . At the body's limits . Welcome approval . Merkur to the end . Adorno - friend or f
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