Abstract

Jean Améry’s work is one of the most notable attempts of philosophical reflection made by a survivor of the concentration camps. He exemplifies through his own person and his writings an ethos of radical humanism, in front of a world transformed by totalitarianism in the realm of strangeness. In this article we want to approach Jean Améry's thinking from the perspective of his original theorization of resentment. A reflection on the human condition and on the demand for justice and reparation understood as negative ontology of the human condition and as a morality that theorizes the future as a kind of impossibility.