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9780198159636

Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues From Testimony to Ethics

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    9780198159636

  • ISBN10:

    0198159633

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-12-13
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book explores the extraordinary depth of Levi the ethical writer across his entire oeuvre, by way of thirteen so-called "ordinary virtues"--the ways and means Levi forges for practically and compassionately engaging with the world. It draws on a wide range of recent thinking about Holocaust literature and the general relationship between literature and ethics.

Author Biography

Robert S. C. Gordon is University Lecturer in Italian, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(38)
PART I: THE ETHICAL TURN
Looking
39(16)
Memory
55(18)
Discretion, or Language and Silence
73(16)
Use
89(24)
PART II: WIT, OR PRACTICAL INTELLIGENCE
Measure, or A Sense of Limit
113(20)
Practice, or Trial and Error
133(16)
Perspective, or Looking Again
149(24)
Invention, or First Things
173(26)
PART III: COMMUNITY
Common Sense
199(20)
Friendship
219(18)
Storytelling
237(22)
PART IV: DIVERSIONS
Irony, or Wit Revisited
259(15)
Play
274(17)
Bibliography 291(20)
Index 311

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