Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work

Damiano Benvegnù is a Lecturer in Italian at Dartmouth College, USA, and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. His current published work focuses on representations of animals, animality, and the environment in modern literature, visual art, and philosophy. He has previously published on minority languages and literatures.

• 1. Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal.- 2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability.- 3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony.- 4. Techne I. Animal Hands.- 5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris.- 6. Creation I. A New Writing.- 7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment.- 8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony.- Index.