This collection contains new and innovative research into the work of the Italian antifascist partisan, concentration camp survivor, author and thinker Primo Levi (1919-1987). It features original essays by many of the world's foremost Levi scholars and by specialists in fields as varied as education, theology, and fine art. Levi's legacy continues to drive a vibrant, continually evolving body of interdisciplinary scholarship, as the contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume confirm. The essays gathered here demonstrate a remarkable breadth across five distinct yet interrelated areas: ethics, communication, and education; humanity, animality, and science; the camps: memory and space; literature and intertext; and media, publishing, and illustration.

Autorentext

Minna Vuohelainen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and MA Program Leader at Edge Hill University, England. She holds a BSc in International History from the London School of Economics, an MA in English from King's College London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Richard Marsh (2015) and of many articles in English Studies, the Journal of Literature and Science, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and has also produced scholarly editions of novels and short fiction. Her current research focuses on print culture, spatiality, the gothic, and the literature of conflict.

Arthur Chapman is Senior Lecturer in History Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, England.

Zusammenfassung

The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies.

Inhalt
1.Introduction;Minna Vuohelainen
PART I: ETHICS, COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION
2.Hope, Shame And Resentment: Primo Levi And Jean Améry;Norman Geras
3.The Ethics Of The Gray Zone; Catherine Mooney
4. 'Labour Of Civilization And Peace': Primo Levi Looks At Interpreters And Interpreting;Mirna Cicioni
5. Hatred In The Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi Affectively Toward Forgiveness;Christina Foisy
PART II: HUMANITY, ANIMALITY AND SCIENCE
6.Humanity, Animality And Philosophy In Primo Levi;Christopher Hamilton
7. Witnessing Animal Suffering: Primo Levi On Animal Experimentation;Damiano Benvegnù
8.The Story Of A Carbon Atom: Primo Levi's Material Science;Judith Woolf
PART III: THE CAMPS: MEMORY AND SPACE
9.Une Histoire Des Odeurs: The Olfactory World In Primo Levi's Narratives;Inés Valle Morán
10.The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi's Spatial Consciousness;Minna Vuohelainen
11. The Offense Of The Memory: Memory And Metaphor In The Drowned And The Saved;Brian Walter
PART IV: LITERATURE AND INTERTEXT
12. Paper Memories, Inked Genealogies: About Primo Levi's The Search For Roots;Maria Anna Mariani
13. Angelic Butterfly And The Gorgon: On Lightness In Primo Levi's Writing;Franco Baldasso
14. 'Il Resto [Non] È Silenzio': The Friendship Of Texts Between Hamlet And Se Questo;Catherine Charlwood
PART V: MEDIA, PUBLISHING AND ILLUSTRATION
15. On Solid Air: Primo Levi And The Radio RAI;Giuseppe Episcopo
16.'Best Regards From Home To Home': Primo Levi's Letters To A UK Friend And Publisher; Anthony Rudolf
17. Illustrating Primo Levi: Jane Joseph And Anthony Rudolf In Conversation;Jane Joseph And Anthony Rudolf