Tag: Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Memory, The Jewish Intellectual, and Cartesian Cogito in Amery’s “At the Mind’s Limits”

https://isgap.org/flashpoint/memory-the-jewish-intellectual-and-cartesian-cogito-in-amerys-at-the-minds-limits/

Jean Amery, in the first chapter of At the Mind’s Limits, tries to demonstrate that Auschwitz rids the intellect of his western ideals and reduces the intellect to a playful logical framework. And as a playful logical framework, Amery’s account of the intellect resembles the Cartesian Cogito. In order to argue this thesis, I will […]

Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie, “Memory, the Jewish Intellectual and Cartesian Cogito in Jean Amery’s At the Mind’s Limits”

https://isgap.org/media/2015/11/dr-vivaldi-jean-marie-memory-the-jewish-intellectual-and-cartesian-cogito-in-jean-amerys-at-the-minds-limits/

Dr. Vivaldi Jean-Marie Associate Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Adjunct Associate of Philosophy and African-American Studies, Columbia University Harvard Faculty Club, Room 4 Monday, November 9th, 2015 7:00 P.M.   For Jean Amery, Auschwitz rids the intellect of its Western ideals, and reduces it to a playful logical framework, and is therefore representative of the Cartesian […]