Levi and the two cultures
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Levi and the two cultures
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number853.914/0006
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07976g
[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]pp103-113
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp103-113
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Levi tells his readers that he was both an Italian and a Jew, both a chemist and a man of letters who was formed intellectually by scientific texts and humanistic ones. Levi hoped to reconnect the so-called two cultures to enable a return to a time when knowledge formed a homogenous whole, and implicitly to a time before the Holocaust shattered our world