On Jean Amampeacutery provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex postHolocaust thinkers Jean Amampeacutery 19121978 a JewishAustrianBelgian essayist journalist and literary author. In the Englishspeaking world Amampeacutery is known for his poignant publication At the Mindamp39s Limits a narrative of exile dispossession torture and Auschwitz. In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Amampeacuteryamp39s writings on victimization and resentment partly attributable to a modern fascination with tolerance historical injustice and reconciliatory ambitions. Many aspects of Amampeacuteryamp39s writing have remained largely unexplored outside the realm of European scholarship and his legacy in Englishlanguage scholarship limited to discussions of victimization and memory.This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the postHolocaust thought of Jean Amampeacutery. Comprehensive in scope and multidisciplinary in orientation contributors explore central aspects of Amampeacuteryamp39s philosophical and ethical position including dignity responsibility resentment and forgiveness. What emerges from the pages of this book is an image of Amampegravery as a difficult and perplexingyet exceptionally engagingthinker whose writings address some of the central paradoxes of survivorship and witnessing. The intellectual and ethical questions of Amampeacuteryamp39s philosophies are equally pertinent today as they were halfcentury ago How one can reconcile with the irreconcilable How can one account for the unaccountable And how can one live after catastrophe