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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz - Posthumanist Reflections (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,504
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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz - Posthumanist Reflections (Hardcover): J Druker

Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz - Posthumanist Reflections (Hardcover)

J Druker

Series: Italian and Italian American Studies

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According to the international critical consensus, Holocaust writer Primo Levi experienced and interpreted Auschwitz through the lens of the Enlightenment and secular humanism. This book reassesses Levi's memoirs and essays in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault, four major thinkers that find causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide. Jonathan Druker argues that even as Levi speaks for the victims in good faith, his texts actually reveal that Holocaust writing framed by humanist assumptions risks complicity with the murderous master narratives of Nazism and Italian Fascism. "Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz "explores the consequences of this complicity for the future of Man, the universal human subject whom Levi urgently tries to defend.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United States
Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
Release date: June 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: J Druker
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-8433-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
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Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
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LSN: 1-4039-8433-6
Barcode: 9781403984333

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