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The Experience of the Holocaust: The Fate and Works of Jean Améry a Primo Levi
Štětinová, Veronika ; Putík, Daniel (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
The topic of the present thesis is "The Experience of Holocaust: The Fate and Works of Jean Améry and Primo Levi". Both authors experienced imprisonment in concentration camps due to their Jewish origin, and this fact is reflected in their works. The thesis aims to follow the parallels in the lives and works of both the authors. Jean Améry and Primo Levi came from nonpracticing Jewish families. This determined their own attitude towards Jewishness. Both of them joined the resistance during World War Two and were consequently sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Apart from Auschwitz, Jean Améry was transported to two other camps. When WWII finished, they began to reflect their experience in their works. Jean Améry, as well as Primo Levi committed suicide many years after the war. In comparison with other authors writing about the Holocaust (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Bruno Bettelheim, Viktor Frankl or Raul Hilberg), Jean Améry and Primo Levi addressed more specific, and to a certain point similar problems. For Jean Améry, the essential topic is the status of an intellectual in Auschwitz, but Primo Levi reflects upon this too. Other themes recurrent in the work of both authors include: existence or non- existence of God, the question of collective guilt of the German nation or the...
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Jean Améry's and Emmanuel Lévinas' view of death and dying
CHALOUPKOVÁ, Ivana
The work deals with the ideas of Jean Amery and Emmanuel Levinas, mainly related to death and dying. It focuses also on human existence. It deals with the concepts of time, aging, attitude to society and to the world, responsibility and freedom. Its aim is to compare ideas among themselves, find links and similarities and differences. There are inserted own perceptions and attitudes towards the ideas of both authors into the work. Their purpose is to arouse the reader's restlessness and activity and guide him to new ways to think about. This work shows that Amery's and Lévinas' attitudes are rather different, but are not directly antagonistic. Levinas' philosophy is rather positive, Amery's negative. Améry is not only a philosopher of suicide too, for which is he often considered, but also deals with life itself.
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