Overview: Offers a new perspective on Jean Amery‘s memoir.Provides a reading inspired by Wittgenstein and Murdoch.Incorporates the work of Heidegger, Taylor, and Nietzsche.The Death of Transcendence. presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Améry’s .At the Mind’s Limits., describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of the Holocaust...Through the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Bernstein and, Charles Taylor, Ashkenazy uncovers the importance and significa
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