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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