Primo Levi and the politics of survival /
At the age of twenty-five, Primo Levi was sent to Hell. Levi, an Italian chemist from Turin, was one of many swept up in the Holocaust of World War II and sent to die in the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. Of the 650 people transported to the camp in his group, only 15 men and 9 women surviv...
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| Langue: | anglais |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2001.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113934 |
Table des matières:
- Force Majeure
- Hobbesian Hell
- Ill-Constituted Beings
- Violence
- The Tragic Sense of Life
- Useful Qualities of Human Nature
- Choices
- Purpose and Work
- Optimistic Pessimism
- Civilized Liberalism
- A Defense of Modernism
- Levi's Death.