Answering Auschwitz : Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall / Stanislao G. Pugliese.
Pugliese, Stanislao G., author.; Ahr, Johan, contributor.; Baird, Marie L., contributor.; Bowman, Terri, contributor.; Druker, Jonathan, contributor.; Farrell, Joseph, contributor.; Giuliani, Massimo, contributor.; Goldstein, Ann, contributor.; Harrowitz, Nancy, contributor.; Klein, Ilona, contributor.; McClellan, William, contributor.; Mellone, James Tasato, contributor.; Misurella, Fred, contributor.; Patruno, Nicholas, contributor.; Pugliese, Stanislao G., contributor.; Pytell, Timothy, contributor.; Scheiber, Elizabeth, contributor.; Simon, Amy, contributor.; Sodi, Risa, contributor.; Thomson, Ian, contributor.; Vandewaetere, Sara, contributor.; Warmund, Joram, contributor.
2022
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Title Answering Auschwitz : Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall / Stanislao G. Pugliese.
Author Pugliese, Stanislao G., author.
ISBN 9780823290871
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290871
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (332 p.) : 9 Illustrations, black and white
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823290871 doi
Summary More than twenty years ago, the Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi fell to his death from the stairwell of his apartment building in Turin. Within hours, a debate exploded as to whether his death was an accident or a suicide and, if the latter, how this might force us to reinterpret his legacy as a writer and "survivor." Many weighed in with thoughtful and sometimes provocative commentary, but the debate over his death has sometimes overshadowed the larger significance of his place as a thinker "after Auschwitz." This volume contains essays that deal directly with Levi and his work; others tangentially use Levi's writings or ideas to explore larger issues in Holocaust studies, philosophy, theology, and the problem of representation. They are included here in the spirit that Levi described himself: proud of being "impure" and a "centaur," cognizant that asymmetry is the fundamental structure of organic life. "I became a Jew in Auschwitz," Levi once wrote, comparing the concentration camp to a "university" of life. Yet he could also paradoxically admit, in an interview late in life, "There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God." Rather than seek to untangle these contradictions, Levi embraced them. This volume seeks to embrace them as well.
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Added Author Ahr, Johan, contributor.
Baird, Marie L., contributor.
Bowman, Terri, contributor.
Druker, Jonathan, contributor.
Farrell, Joseph, contributor.
Giuliani, Massimo, contributor.
Goldstein, Ann, contributor.
Harrowitz, Nancy, contributor.
Klein, Ilona, contributor.
McClellan, William, contributor.
Mellone, James Tasato, contributor.
Misurella, Fred, contributor.
Patruno, Nicholas, contributor.
Pugliese, Stanislao G., contributor.
Pytell, Timothy, contributor.
Scheiber, Elizabeth, contributor.
Simon, Amy, contributor.
Sodi, Risa, contributor.
Thomson, Ian, contributor.
Vandewaetere, Sara, contributor.
Warmund, Joram, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Prologue. Answering Auschwitz: Levi's Science and Humanism as Antifascism
Part One. Psychology, Theology, and Philosophy
1. ''Warum?''
2. Guilt or Shame?
3. Primo Levi and the Concept of History
4. Kenosis, Saturated Phenomenology, and Bearing Witness
5. After Auschwitz: What Is a Good Death?
Part two. Humanism and Politics
6. The Humanity and Humanism of Primo Levi
7. Levi and the Two Cultures
8. The Partisan and His Doppelganger: The Case of Primo Levi
9. Primo Levi in the Public Interest: Turin, Auschwitz, Israel
Part three. Literature
10. Primo Levi's Struggle with the Spirit of Kafka
11. Ethics and Literary Strategies
12. Literary Encounters and Storytelling Techniques
13.Primo Levi and the History of Reception
14. Autobiography and the Narrator
Part four. Reflections on Writing
15. Writing Against the Fascist Sword
16. ''Singoli Stimoli'': Primo Levi's Poetry
17. Primo Levi's Correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas
18. A Note on the Problem of Translation
19. Primo Levi: A Bibliography of English and Italian Scholarly Writings, 2003-2010
Epilogue. Primo Levi's Gray Zone: A Sequence of Drawings
Notes
Works cited
Contributors
Index

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