Tuesday, September 23, 2014

In Auschwitz...

«In Auschwitz, however, the intellectual person was isolated, thrown back entirely upon himself. (...) In Auschwitz the intellect was nothing more than itself and there was no chance to apply it to a social structure (...) the intellectual was alone with his intellect, which was nothing other than pure content of consciousness, and there was no social reality that could support and confirm it».

(Jean Améry)