humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
TitelThe humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
Auteur
Call number853.914/0006
Objectnummer07976f
Plaats van uitgaveNew York, New York, United States
UitgeverFordham University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2011
Pagina'spp87-102
MateriaalArtikel
ISBN9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp87-102
Beschrijving
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'
