Primo Levi's Journey Home from Auschwitz in the Light of Ancient Civic Pilgrimage: Levi's The Truce as a Form of Theoria
Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian chemist captured with other members of a partisan band in German-occupied northern Italy and deported to Auschwitz, survived his ordeal to write one of the more acclaimed testimonies of Nazi inhumanity, Se questo è un uomo (Survival in Auschwitz). Taking as a starting po...
| Published in: | The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin Institute of Technology
[2019]
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The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Levi, Primo 1919-1987, Se questo è un uomo
/ Auschwitz concentration camp
/ Pilgrimage
/ Levi, Primo 1919-1987, La tregua
/ Return home
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AE Psychology of religion BH Judaism ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Primo Levi
B civic pilgrimage B Plato B Theoria B The Truce |
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| Summary: | Primo Levi, a Jewish-Italian chemist captured with other members of a partisan band in German-occupied northern Italy and deported to Auschwitz, survived his ordeal to write one of the more acclaimed testimonies of Nazi inhumanity, Se questo è un uomo (Survival in Auschwitz). Taking as a starting point a parallel Levi explicitly draws between the aims of postwar pilgrimages to Auschwitz commemorations and the effect he hoped his books would have on his readers, this article shows how his second book, La tregua (The Reawakening), which relates his roundabout and oft-delayed journey home to Turin after the Red Army's liberation of Auschwitz, offers insights and calls forth responses akin to the insights and responses associated with a particular form of pilgrimage, the ancient polis practice of civic-religious pilgrimage, theoria. The connection is made through consideration of Andrea Nightingale's analysis of how Plato sought to legitimise his mode of philosophical practice by casting it as a form of theoria. |
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| ISSN: | 2009-7379 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The international journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.21427/xm1f-4w75 |