Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / / Jean Amery ; edited and translated by Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld.
Radical Humanism gives English-language readers the opportunity to expand their acquaintance with one of the most penetrating intellects of the postwar era. Philosopher, novelist, activist, and cultural, literary, and political critic, Jean Amery (1912-78) was a man of passionate concerns and intere...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1984. |
| Year of Publication: | 1984 |
| Language: | English German |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xi, 144 pages) |
| Notes: | Essays translated from various sources. |
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Table of Contents:
- After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer
- Being a Jew : a personal account
- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto
- Antisemitism on the left
- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants
- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity
- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945
- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator"
- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values
- Simone Weil : beyond the legend
- Sartre : greatness and failure
- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.