Jean Améry

Part I Limits: Bound to the Past.- 1. Jean Améry and Primo Levi: The Differences in Likeness.- 2. On Historical Objectivity, the Reality of Evil and Moral Kitsch: Jean Améry as a Witness.- 3. Jean Améry and the Generational Limits of Resentment as Morality.- 4. Registers of Undesirability, Poetics of Detention: Jean Améry on the Jewish Exile and Behrouz Boochani on the Manus Prison.- 5. The Ethics of Resentment: The Tactlessness of Jean Améry.- Part II The Mind: Torture and Consequences.- 6. “They Tortured Because They Were Torturers”.- 7. Torture: Reading Améry, Rereading Jewish Law.- 8. Total destruction: The case of Jean Améry.- 9. Language in Exile, Exile in Language: Reflections on Jean Améry’s Essay “How Much Home Does a Person Need?”.- 10. The Healing Power of Imagination: Playfulness in Impossible Situations.- Part III Beyond: Philosophy and Literature.- 11. “In an Uncertain Twilight:”  On Jean Améry’s Reluctant Philosophy.- 12. Jean Améry on the Value of Death and Dying.- 13. Jean Améry: Suicide, The Refusal to Heal, and Humanistic Freedom.- 14. Yael Lavi Between the Logic of Life and the Anti-Logic of Death.- 15. “The nonsense that you cannot write poetry after Auschwitz...” Jean Améry the Dichter.- 16. Realism Contested: Jean Améry’s Charles Bovary, Country Doctor.