Magdalena Zolkos is research fellow in political theory at the Center for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney. She has published on issues of reconciliation, collective trauma, community and testimony.

This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the individual subjective experience of trauma on the other, proposing that it be thought as a potentially productive tension. To do so, Zolkos looks at how texts from Jean Améry and Imre Kertész speak to the question of the politics of the past and, ultimately, to the post-foundational notions of community and justice.
The text works with issues of reconciliation at a theoretical level that bring together insights from political theory, trauma studies, holocaust studies, history and literary theory. The book has the greatest relevance for the critical reconciliation theory, as well as for those working on the concept of community within the continental tradition.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: On Jean Améry: "I say 'I'... merely out of habit"
Chapter 1 - Resentment, Trauma Subjectivity and the Ordering of Time
Chapter 2 - "A Wound Was Inflicted on Me"-Améry's Testimony to Torture
Chapter 3 - Thanatic Reconciliations in On Aging and On Suicide
Part II: On Imre Kertész: "I don't know how I should continue"
Chapter 4 - Fateless: Being "Without Fate," Without the Help of Another
Chapter 5 - Apocalypse, Testimony, and Love in Kaddish for a Child Not Born
Epilogue - On Irreversibility
Notes
Bibliography