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Levi Beyond Levi

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Postcritical Engagements with Primo Levi’s Works

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvStefano Bellin,Simone Ghelli

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What do Primo Levi’s works tell about our world? How can they help us to think about today’s global challenges? Levi Beyond Levi invites readers to rediscover Primo Levi as a thinker whose ideas continue to resonate far beyond the historical conditions in which they were written. Emphasising reading as a dialogic and creative practice, the volume shows how Levi’s reflections on violence, memory, ethics, science, and political responsibility speak directly to the world we inhabit today.Rather than treating Levi’s work as something fixed in the past, the contributors explore how his writings travel across time and culture, opening new perspectives on urgent issues such as rising authoritarianism, the ecological crisis, and the genocide in Palestine. They highlight how contemporary writers, artists, and theorists have drawn creatively on Levi’s insights, expanding and reimagining his questions for the twenty-first century.Through innovative and thought-provoking essays, Levi Beyond Levi positions Levi as a companion for thinking through moral and political challenges that remain unresolved. The volume invites readers to consider Levi not only as a survivor and witness, but also as a classic whose works continue to generate meaning, spark debate, and offer tools for navigating our ‘moment of danger’.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-14
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransnational Italian Cultures
Antal sidor320
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781805965930

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Stefano Bellin is tenure-track Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is currently completing a monograph entitled The Shame of Being Human: A Philosophical Reading of Primo Levi. Simone Ghelli is senior post-doc researcher in contemporary Italian literature at the University of Ferrara (Italy). He is the author of The Suffering Animal. Life Between Weakness and Power (Palgrave 2023), and La vita è ingiusta. Il doloroso darwinismo di Primo Levi (IISF Press 2023).

Contributors Acknowledgements References and Quotations Abbreviations of Levi’s TitlesFOREWORD Maria Anna MarianiINTRODUCTIONLevi beyond Levi: Thinking with Primo Levi in the 21st Century Stefano BellinPART I: COMPARATIVE ENGAGEMENTS Primo Levi and Human Equality during the Genocide in Gaza Stefano Bellin Primo Levi in the Amazon: Postcolonial Genocides and the Holocaust Michele Maiolani Faith in writing: Primo Levi and James Baldwin Ruth Murphy PART II: POSTCOLONIAL ENGAGEMENTS Decolonising Testimony: Primo Levi and Frederick Douglass Bryan Cheyette ‘Messiness’: Maaza Mengiste looks with Primo Levi Derek Duncan Primo Levi, Antisemitism, and Anti-Blackness in Italy Cristina Lombardi-Diop PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL ENGAGEMENTS The Grey Bond: Notes on Life, Power and Evil in Primo Levi Simona Forti Fiction and Solicitude: Ethics and the Conditions for Survival Judith Butler A Wicked God Called Life: Beyond the Deleuzian Century with Primo Levi Simone Ghelli PART IV: ECOCRITICAL ENGAGEMENTS Freedom Begins with Signs: Understanding Biosemiotics with Primo Levi ‒ and Vice Versa Serenella Iovino Levi, Darwin, and the Radical Ambivalence of Human Nature Telmo Pievani Primo Levi’s Transspecies Imaginary Gabriele Schwab PART V: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ENGAGEMENTS Epistemology and Communication: Primo Levi, Popular Science and Popular History Robert S. C. Gordon Primo Levi, Arnaldo Momigliano and the Writing of History Rosa Mucignat ‘Exceptions Redefine the Norm’: A Conversation with Carlo Greppi Carlo Greppi, Stefano Bellin, Simone Ghelli AFTERWORD Reading Levi Far Beyond Levi Michael RothbergIndex