humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
TitelThe humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
Forfatter
Call number853.914/0006
Objektnummer07976f
UdgivelsesstedNew York, New York, United States
UdgiverFordham University Press
Udgivelsesår
2011
Pagineringpp87-102
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9780823233595
NoterArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp87-102
Beskrivelse
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'