This thesis aims to explore the meaning and the significance of the shame of being human
through a mutually elucidating dialogue between Levi's work and that of a range of …

Emotions research is 'in'. It is no longer the philosophical equivalent of an 'odd backwater',
as one philosopher, writing just over 10 years ago, referred to it. The backwater has been …

Primo Levi was the twentieth century's preeminent witness—preeminent both in general
and, more specifically, among the voices that sought to draw attention to the shape of its …

This chapter is devoted to Primo Levi's works, here assumed as one of the most effective
contemporary expressions of the suffering animal paradigm. First, I reconstruct the debate …

This essay analyses MusilГs The Confusions of Young Törless, which, published in 1906,
depicts the torture and abuse of one boy by three of his peers at the centre of a'civilizedГ …

This essay puts forward the idea that shame is effectively a structure of inter-subjectivity that
most remarkably posits an ethical gesture that trumps all moral orders and precepts. Shame …

Brian Gregor despite some important differences in presuppositions, the works of dietrich
Bonhoeffer and Emmanuel levinas reveal a striking convergence on a number of themes …

This article analyses the concept of the human in Primo Levi's works, as well as his use of
the animal as way of characterizing the nonhuman element inside the human. To disclose …

Feminist theorizations have recovered the ethical and political value of shame, suggesting
that shame operates not only as a mechanism of normalization and social exclusion but also …

Primo Levi wrote in the preface to his account of Auschwitz in the second publication of “If
This Is a Man”(1958) that his purpose in writing was to provide documentation for a quiet …