Magdalena Zolkos: 3 books
Reconciling Community and Subjective Life
Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the individual subjective experience of trauma on the other, proposing that it be thought as a potentially productive tension. To do so, Zolkos looks at how texts from Jean...
On Jean Améry
Philosophy of Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's...
Defunct Federalisms
Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Since the end of the Cold War the global arena has become a place for dynamic change, in particular for federal political units. The focus on defunct federalisms draws attention not only to the difference between state-making and nation building, it also points to the fact that state-making does not...