Answering Auschwitz : Primo Levi's science and humanism after the fall / edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese.

Other author Pugliese, Stanislao G., 1965-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Descriptionviii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Psychology, theology, and philosophy. "Warum?" / Joram Warmund -- Guilt or shame? / Amy Simon -- Primo Levi and the concept of history / Johan Åhr -- Kenosis, saturated phenomenology, and bearing witness / Marie L. Baird -- After Auschwitz: what is a good death? / Timothy Pytell -- Humanism and politics. The humanity and humanism of Levi / Joseph Farrell -- Levi and the two cultures / Jonathan Druker -- The partisan and his doppelganger: the case of Primo Levi / Ilona Klein -- Primo Levi in the public interest: Turin, Auschwitz, Israel / Risa Sodi -- Literature. Primo Levi's struggle with the spirit of Kafka / Massimo Giuliani -- Ethics and literary strategies / Sara Vandewaetere -- Literary encounters and storytelling techniques / Elizabeth Scheiber -- Primo Levi and the history of reception / William McClellan -- Autobiography and the narrator / Nancy Harrowitz -- Reflections on writing. Writing against the fascist sword / Fred Misurella -- "Singoli Stimoli" : Primo Levi's poetry / Nicholas Patruno -- Primo Levi's correspondence with Hety Schmitt-Maas / Ian Thomson -- A note on the problem of translation / Ann Goldstein -- Primo Levi: a bibliography of English and Italian scholarly writings, 2003-2010 / James Tasato Mellone -- Epilogue. Primo Levi's Gray zone: a sequence of drawings / Terri Bowman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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