Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers d'Etudes Lévinassiennes
Angaben zur Quelle:
[hors série] (2005) 109-124
Keywords:
Lévy, Benny,
;
Levi, Primo,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Discusses an excerpt from Primo Levi's "Se questo è un uomo" in light of Benny Lévy's comments on it in "Être juif: Étude lévinassienne" (2003). Argues that Levi's book addresses the question of philosophy and its fate in the camps, which convoke the "universitas" of knowledge and languages in order to destroy them with the help of modern technology. Each segment of the book describes the destruction of a specific language and form of knowledge. Chapter 13, from which the excerpt analyzed here is taken, relates to the destruction of philosophy.
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