Language:
German
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 225-234
Keywords:
Améry, Jean Criticism and interpretation
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Améry, Jean.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Philosophy
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Torture Philosophy
Abstract:
This article examines French postwar memory and the entanglement of different experiences of violence based on a reading of Jean Améry’s essay Die Tortur. Within the context of French postwar politics, it explores the question of why the experience of torture that Améry suffered as an imprisoned resistance fighter could override the Nazi extermination he witnessed in Auschwitz. The specific French memory constellation is introduced as the interweaving of two axes, the continental experience of World War II with the colonial experience.
DOI:
10.13109/9783666317361.225
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