Primo Levi and Humanism After Auschwitz : Posthumanist Reflections
by
J. Druker
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Italian and Italian American Studies
ISBN-10
1403984336
ISBN-13
9781403984333
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 17th, 2009
Print length
173 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.80 x 1.50 cms
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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.
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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