humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
TitelThe humanity and humanism of Primo Levi
Författare
Call number853.914/0006
Objektnummer07976f
PubliceringsortNew York, New York, United States
UtgivareFordham University Press
Publikationsår
2011
Pagineringpp87-102
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780823233595
NotesArticle from the book "Answering Auschwitz" pp87-102
Beskrivning
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'