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Name:	At the Mind's Limits
Product Code:	9780253211736
Description:	By Jean Amery
Product Detail:	Jean Amery, who was sent to work and die in Auschwitz, writes: “In Auschwitz the intellect was nothing more than itself and there was no chance to apply it to a social structure, no matter how insufficient, no matter how concealed it may have been. Thus the intellectual was alone with his intellect, which was nothing other than pure consciousness of consciousness, and there was no social reality that could support and confirm it.” Amery was working on an underground newspaper, when he was captured and tortured by the SS. His faith in the mind and in humanity was shattered, and in this series of essays, he attempts to come to grips with the fact of survival through the elimination of all but the most basic needs for existence. A work of deep philosophical thought about the multifaceted suffering caused by the Holocaust, it is a memoir with profound feeling.
Features:	Paper 111 Pages
Price:	$15.99

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