This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

Autorentext
JONATHON DRUKER is Associate Professor of Italian at Illinois State University, USA.

Inhalt
Judaism, Enlightenment, and the End of Theodicy The Shadowed Violence of Culture Survivor Testimony and the Hegelian Subject Ethics and Ontology in Auschwitz and After Traumatic History The Art of Separation from Chemistry to Racial Science The Work of Genocide Conclusion: A New Humanism?