Kenosis, saturated phenomenology, and bearing witness
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Kenosis, saturated phenomenology, and bearing witness
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number853.914/0006
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07976d
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Fordham University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2011
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp56-66
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp56-66
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Auschwitz created Levi the 'writer-witness'. He writes"if I had not lived the Auschwitz experience, I probably would never have written anything". Such an overwhelming historical event can be understood as having positioned Levi as a writer, a vocation to which he had not previous aspired. This was his way of coping with the psychological and emotional aftereffects of his ordeal