{"product_id":"jean-amzsry-ilit-ferber-9780197846919","title":"Jean Améry: Identity, Time, Failure","description":"In this volume, Ilit Ferber offers the first comprehensive philosophical study of Jean Améry's oeuvre. A Holocaust survivor and lifelong exile, Améry is best known for \u003cem\u003eAt the Mind's Limits\u003c\/em\u003e (1966), his searing reflection on Auschwitz. Yet the prominence of this work has often obscured the breadth of his thought. Read together with \u003cem\u003eOn Aging\u003c\/em\u003e (1968) and \u003cem\u003eOn Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e (1976), as well as his essays on literature and culture, a fuller picture emerges: Améry's writings form a sustained meditation on identity, time, and failure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eJean Améry: Identity, Time, Failure \u003c\/em\u003eshows how Améry's autobiographical voice and his philosophical reflections are deeply intertwined. Rather than standing in opposition, they mutually illuminate one another, making his work a rare case where personal experience becomes the ground of philosophical inquiry. Across memoir, essay, and literary interpretation, Améry probes resentment, exile, aging, and voluntary death, with a style that is both intimate and uncompromising. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of the book is the claim that Améry should be understood not only as a witness but also as a philosopher in his own right. His refusal of consolation, his insistence on irreparable suffering, and his reflections on the fragility of selfhood position him as a central figure in twentieth-century thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough close readings, this book brings Améry into dialogue with Sartre, Proust, Beauvoir, Nietzsche, Flaubert, and Jankélévitch. These dialogues highlight the originality of Améry's perspective while situating him within broader philosophical and literary traditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth introduction and invitation, \u003cem\u003eJean Améry: Identity, Time, Failure\u003c\/em\u003e guides readers through Améry's corpus and positions him at the crossroads of philosophy, literature, and testimony. It demonstrates why his voice-rooted in personal experience yet reaching beyond it-remains urgently relevant to questions of identity, mortality, and the limits of human endurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ilit Ferber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197846912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197846919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.45h x 6.49w x 1.21d","brand":"Ilit Ferber","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852757020927,"sku":"9780197846919","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jean-amzsry-ilit-ferber-9780197846919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}