Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Amery and Imre Kertesz (1st edition.)

An examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation and the individual subjective experience of trauma.

It looks at how texts from Jean Amery and Imre Kertesz speak to the question of the politics of the past and, ultimately, to the post-foundational notions of community and justice.