The Reprieve: Weak Messianism and the Event in Primo Levi’s Moments of Reprieve

In this article, I analyse Primo Levi’s work on Auschwitz, in particular his Moments of Reprieve. Against the overdetermined inhuman economy of the camp, I find that ‘the reprieve’ is what philosopher John D. Caputo has described as an Event, a stirring prompted by a call from alterity. Because it d...

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Main Author: McAvan, Em (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2011
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-184
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