6:00 PM Taras Bychko, Pavlo Kovach, Garry Krayevets
Jean Améry. The Resilience of Enlightenment
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Thursday, June 30
Friday, July 1
Saturday, July 2
Conception: Susan Neiman, Potsdam
with Moshe Halbertal, Jerusalem; Stephen Holmes, New York; Peter Stephan Jungk, Paris; Ivan Krastev, Wien; Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg; David Shulman, Jerusalem; James Wood, Cambridge/Mass.
No one wrote more profound or penetrating essays on survival in Auschwitz, torture, ageing, and suicide than Jean Améry, born Hans Mayer in Vienna. Yet along with the–often despairing–works that made him famous, he also wrote the 20th century’s most passionate defenses of the much-maligned Enlightenment. Are these works in conflict with each other, or must they be read in tandem? This conference will explore this question while focusing on those aspects of Améry’s work that have received scant attention.
Program
Jun 30, 2022
Jul 1, 2022
11:00 AM Susan Neiman
The Resilience of Jean Améry
12:00 PM Moshe Halbertal
On the Fragility of the Human. Améry on Counter-Enlightenment
3:00 PM David Shulman
Torturing the Mind. A Palestinian Addendum to Améry
4:30 PM Stephen Holmes
It May be Paradoxical but it’s Still Not True
5:30 PM Ivan Krastev
Enlightenment. Reflection on a Divorce
Jul 2, 2022
11:00 AM Peter Stephan Jungk
Jean Améry on a Suicide Mission. Charles Bovary, Country Doctor
12:30 PM Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Monsieur Bovary
1:30 PM James Wood
Unspeakable Realism. Defending Jean Améry, Defending Gustave Flaubert
The event will be held in English
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