The written Witnesses and Auschwitz Experience in 20th Century History: a Reading of Primo Levi and Giorgio Agamben Cover Image
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Pismenoto svidetelstvo i opita ot Aushvic v istoriata na XX vek: Prochit na Primo Levi i Giorgio Agamben
The written Witnesses and Auschwitz Experience in 20th Century History: a Reading of Primo Levi and Giorgio Agamben

Author(s): Pierre-Antoine Chardel
Subject(s): History
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София

Summary/Abstract: This article is intended to investigate how the representation of history had changed during the XX century, especially, since the tragedy of the Holocaust. This tragedy has got a lot of consequences from the hermeneutical point of view. Primo Levi's witnesses are experiences which teach us that history must be interpreted since events which deny the historical reason. On the other hand, the perception of ethics can become an attention to the individualнs suffering which is no more a simple moment of history. The revalorization of the alterity and the impossibility in the witness (Giorgio Agamben) can influence a very singular exigency of responsibility.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 225-243
  • Page Count: 19