humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
TitleThe humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
Author
Call number853.914/0006
Object number07976f
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherFordham University Press
Year of publication
2011
Physical descriptionpp87-102
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp87-102
Description
The distinguishing feature of Levi's account of the Holocaust is the prominence given to the malevalent process of dehumanization. Levi maintains that war is in human nature, but Auschwitz is not. It is 'outside of man'. What he emphasises as being 'unique in history' is not the genocide, but the specifically Nazi program of 'demolishing the human'
