Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz
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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz

Posthumanist Reflections

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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz

Posthumanist Reflections

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This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

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Year
2009
ISBN
9780230622180

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Judaism, Enlightenment, and the End of Theodicy
  6. 2 The Shadowed Violence of Culture
  7. 3 Survivor Testimony and the Hegelian Subject
  8. 4 Ethics and Ontology in Auschwitz and After
  9. 5 Traumatic History
  10. 6 The Art of Separation from Chemistry to Racial Science
  11. 7 The Work of Genocide
  12. Conclusion: A New Humanism?
  13. Notes
  14. Index