The philosopher of Auschwitz: Jean Améry and living with the Holocaust
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Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgements
xiii
Chapter
1
Village Idyll
(1912-1924) -
Bad
Ischi
and the Magic of the Forest
1
Hohenems: certificate of citizenship and ostensible homeland
■
The family
•
Early years in Vienna
·
Hans and Ernst Mayer: friends in life and death
•
Bad
Ischi
·
Who or what is a Jew?
·
A divided heart
·
Winter world
versus summer world
·
The tribulations of the young grammar-school boy
Chapter
2
Zirkusgasse (1924-1935) -
The Enticements of Reason
15
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
Brücke
Chapter
3
Die
Schiffbrüchigen
[The Shipwrecked]
(1935-1945) -
Hans Mayer
as a Writer of Fiction
29
1935:
Préludes
·
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
Chapter
4
Years of Wandering
(1938-1945) -
The Mind Knows No Limits
47
Vienna before and after the Anschluss
·
Antwerp
(1938-1940)
•
St. Cyprien
-
Guts
(1940-1941) ·
Flight to occupied Belgium
vu
viii
The
Philosopher
of
Auschwitz
• Resistance in
Brussels
· Breendonck (1943) ·
Torture in the novel
(1945) ·
Torture in the essay
(1965) ·
Auschwitz
-
Dora-Mittelbau
-
Bergen Belsen
(1944-1945) ·
Jean Améry
/
Primo Levi
-
an excursus
•
Friends strange to each other
·
Coming home to no home
Chapter
5
Living On
-
but How and Where?
(1945-1955) -
The original
theme of suicide
73
Love's Crown of Thorns: variation
1 · Heinrich
Greyt: variation
2
•
Die
Selbstmörder:
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
français'?
·
'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
Ischi?
The 'indissoluble boyhood friendship'
·
Cologne?
Comrade Heinz
Kühn ·
Dangerous games with identity
·
Lore's London?
•
Sartre's Paris?
· Zürich
and the
Dukas
press agency?
·
Brussels old and
new
·
The
Adelboden
sanatorium
·
Journalistic confectionery
Chapter
6
Jean Améry
the Journalist
(1955-1965) 103
Portraits of famous contemporaries
·
Vive la science!
·
Jazz
-
heightened
emotion
·
Stars of the
1950s ·
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
-
the 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
Contents ix
Chapter
7
Drama of the Mind in Three Acts
-
The Autobiographical Trilogy
133
Prologue
·
Heissenbiittel 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) ·
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 foe?
·
No 'republic
of intellectuals'
·
Canonized by
Ingeborg Bachmann ·
The eternal
exile of writers
·
Longing for 'redemption'
·
Waiting for requited
love
·
The opposite of symbiosis
·
The psychoanalysis of being a Jew
•
Jean-Paul Sartre
-
second excursus
·
Dis-similation, not as-similation
•
A fundamental document of our time
·
A spectacular effect
· Elias
Canetti
and Ernst Fischer have their say
·
Act II: On Aging
(1968)
•
Influences
·
Autobiography Part
2? ·
Between profit and loss to the self
•
Revolt and resignation
·
Aging and being a Jew
·
Aging and torture
•
Torture from outside
-
torture from within
·
Death comes as the end
•
The darling of the media
·
Heart attack
·
Act III: Years of Wandering
(1971) ·
'Survey of a period'
·
A Bildungsroman
turned upside down
•
An artist of transformation
·
Homo absconditus
·
No place anywhere
•
A forced relationship with Israel: 'I came, I saw, I lost'
·
The circle is
closed
Chapter
8
Jean Améry as a
Writer of Fiction
187
Snapshots
·
Honours
·
Everyday life in Brussels
·
Mens
sana in
corpore
insano
·
Young
Törless
and his years of wandering
(1971)
•
The 'aesthetics of barbarity'
·
No rationalism without sympathy
•
Venturing into literary fiction
·
Who is Erich
Schmid?
·
A novel about
an artist, with evocative images
·
The essayist as novelist
· Feuermann
•
Feuerreiţer
[Fire-Rider]
·
The truer truth of the emotive
·
Lefeu
oder
Der Abbruch -
'a summary of his own life'?
·
Faith in language versus
the dissolution of language
·
The 'demolition' of
Jean Améry
·
The way
to un-freedom
·
The Baader-Meinhof debacle
·
Albert Speer's lucrative
remorse
·
A Werther
of the
1970s ·
'Lessing's first brother'
·
Testament
•
Sartre in search of Flaubert,
Améry in
search of Charles
·
A plea for
Charles, the intellectual proletarian »Ethical defence
=
aesthetic defence
•
C'est la faute de
Flaubert
·
In the name of the bourgeois subject
•
Charles the representative of
liberté, égalalité, fraternité
·
Short Letter,
Long Farewell
·
Monsieur
Bovary, c'est moi
·
'Wait to hear the sound
χ
The Philosopher of Auschwitz
of the echo. Is it hollow? Does it ring clear?'
·
No more Rendezvous in
Oudenaarde
·
Final declarations of love
·
Unio
mystica
·
Passions of the
mind and the body
Chapter
9
Last Things
235
The unnatural nature of natural death
·
Suicide
-
an inalienable human
right
·
To whom does a human being belong?
·
How free is the way to
freedom?
·
'Life and death: two unknown quantities'
·
Art as life, life
as art
·
'Man thinks, multi-causality guides'
·
No necessity
·
Why? On
the necessity and impossibility of being a writer
·
The Left without a
home
·
'A man and his body'
·
'Yes, love does exist'
·
When?
·
Where?
•
How?
·
Afterwards
Appendix
259
List of abbreviations: titles of works
List of abbreviations: initials of persons and institutions
Notes
261
Picture Credits
289
Index of Works
291
Index of Names
295
Who was
Jean Améry?·
Victim or survivor?
Agnostic or Jew? Austrian or exile?
Philosopher or novelist?
Jean Améry
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 think¬
ers of the twentieth century.
Jean
Amén
born Hans Maier in Austria
in
1912 -
is perhaps best known for his
seminal work,!? the Mind's Limits, one of
the central texts on what
Amén
himself
described as 'the subjective state of'the
victim.' But as
Irène Heidelberger-
Leonard's book reveals,
Améry
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 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
Améry
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
Améry s
literarv
works, one of the book's great strengths lies
in exploring how every aspect of
Améns
life and thought is inextricably connected
with his writings.
This biography brilliantly demonstrates
the importance of
Amén
in his own
time and shows how his relevance
extends far beyond. |
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