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Title Answering Auschwitz : Primo Levi's science and humanism after the fall / edited by Stanislao G. Pugliese
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 315 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Summary This work contains essays that deal directly with Levi and his work, tangentially using Levi's writings or ideas to explore larger issues in Holocaust studies, philosophy, theology, and the problem of representation
Notes Selected conference papers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Levi, Primo -- Criticism and interpretation
Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 fast
Subject HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Italian Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Pugliese, Stanislao G., 1965- editor.
LC no. 2010052417
ISBN 9780823241811
0823241815
9780823233601
082323360X
9780823248872
0823248879