The Witness and the Gorgon. On Silence and the Testimony of Violence
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This article is a critical approach to the figure of Primo Levi as a witness of violence, and an inquiry into the ethical and political nature of his testimony. Faced with the unspeakable, with the deeply immoral, Levi’s task as a witness is that of pushing the limits of what can be possibly represented. In the search for the deepest and clearest understanding of his contribution we will confront his denunciation of barbarism, his claim for the victims of totalitarianism, with the views/interpretations that have rejected or denied this possibility and the worth of this testimony, particularly that of Giorgio Agamben.
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