Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Dissent
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,4 (1994) 518-527
Schlagwort(e):
Améry, Jean
;
Levi, Primo,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Kurzfassung:
Compares Levi's and Améry's testimonies on the Holocaust and their reactions to it as reflected in their writings. States that Levi and Améry are bound by a passionate commitment to moral reason. Their accounts focus on the question how it is possible to remain human in the grip of extremity. Améry's response to his experiences is shaped by the emotion of resentment. Levi's approach focuses on humanism. He combined equanimity with a moral lucidity that knew when to judge and when to suspend judgment. He exhibited a sensitivity to "extenuating circumstances" in the cases of persons who compromised or did not resist, which has no parallel in the work of Améry. Levi's suspension of judgment represents the moral sanity that the camps tried to and did, in fact, extinguish.
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