New York:: Schocken Books, 1986. Very Good condition. Flat, uncreased spine. Bright, clean, square, and tight. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 5.5" wide by 8.25" tall. From the rear cover: "Jean Amery, one of Europe's most profound intellectuals and essayists, takes a daring, probing look into his own inner world as a Holocaust victim and survivor. In five brilliant autobiographical essays. Amery analyzes the impact of torture, humiliation, homelessness, and exile on the human psyche. In a new foreword to this edition. Alexander Stille discusses their differing views. Amery was born Hans Maier in Vienna in 1912. After the proclamation of the Nuremberg Laws, he fled to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance. In 1943, he was caught by the Gestapo and sent to a series of concentration camps, including Auschwitz." Afterword by Sidney Rosenfeld. 1st Schocken edition, with new foreword. Softcover. Very Good condition. xxiv, 111pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st Schocken edition, with new foreword.

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Title

At the Mind's Limits, Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities

Publisher

Schocken Books, New York:

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0805209840

ISBN 13

9780805209846

Binding

Paperback

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Very Good condition.

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Essays discuss Jewish identity and the implications of the Holocaust

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Because Auschwitz was among the most brutal of the concentration camps, ruled by capricious, pure force and not by any discernable political or social structure, the intellectual there "was alone with his intellect ... and there was no social reality that could support and confirm it." In other words, there was no place for the intellect to act, outside of the confines of a person's own skull. Jean Amery's At The Mind's Limits is a focused meditation on the position of the intellectual placed in "a borderline situation, where he has to confirm the reality and effectiveness of his intellect, or to declare its impotence: in Auschwitz." In the camp, Amery writes, "The intellect very abruptly lost its basic quality: its transcendence." Considering this loss, Amery describes his own experience of torture, his reactions of resentment, anger and bitterness, his loss of any vital sense of metaphysical questions and his search for some way to maintain moral character and Jewish identity in the absence of such consciousness. --Michael Joseph Gross

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