by Jean Améry · Klett-Cotta · tapa dura · ISBN 9783608952261
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«Hand an sich legen. Diskurs über den Freitod» is the philosophical essay by Jean Améry, published by Klett-Cotta in hardcover (155 pages, in German).
The essay does not defend suicide or assisted suicide; it analyzes the disposition of those who contemplate or commit it. Améry champions individual freedom: a person belongs to themselves before any institution, nation or religion, and deciding on the end of one's own life can take precedence over social and biological constraints.
This edition is part of the Cotta's Bibliothek der Moderne collection, where it bears number 21.
A work for readers of philosophy and essays, with an interest in the psychology of suicide, individual autonomy and reflections on death.
Jean Améry, born Hans Chaim Maier, was an Austrian-born essayist who wrote about his experiences surviving the Holocaust. His most celebrated work, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966), suggests that torture was "the essence" of the Third Reich. Other notable works included On Aging (1968) and On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976). He adopted the pseudonym Jean Améry after 1945. Améry died by suicide in 1978.
