Reflections on Jean Amry

This book elaborates Jean Amrys critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Minds Limits and his other writings. It shows how Amry elaborates the shortcomings and unfitness of philosophical theories to account for torture, the experience of homelessness, and other indignities, and their inability to assist with overcoming resentment. It thus teases out the philosophical import of Jean Amry's critique of philosophy, which constitutes his own philosophical testament of being an inmate at Auschwitz. This book situates At the Minds Limits in the context of twentieth-century Continental philosophy. On the one hand, it elaborates Amrys engagement with key philosophical figures. On the other hand, it shows how thoroughly Amry denounces the limits of the philosophical enterprise, and its impotence in capturing and accounting for the crimes of the Third Reich.