humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number853.914/0006
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07976f
[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]pp87-102
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp87-102
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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'