Jean Amery

Gebundenes Buch

On Suicide

A Discourse on Voluntary Death

Übersetzer: Barlow, John D

Beschreibung

Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.

Autor

Jean Améry (1921-1978) was born in Vienna and in 1938 emigrated to Belgium, where he joined the Resistance Movement. He was caught by the Nazis in 1943, tortured by the SS, and survived the next two years in the concentration camps. He was author of seven volumes of essays and two novels. He committed suicide in 1978. John D. Barlow is Dean Emeritus of the School of Liberal Arts and Professor Emeritus of English and German at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He is author of German Expressionist Film and several translations, including Jean Améry's On Aging.

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 146mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780253335630
• ISBN-10: 0253335639
• Artikelnr.: 21123988