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Judith Butler. Primo Levi for the Present

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Title:Judith Butler. Primo Levi for the Present
Date:2006Length:1:30:23
Judith Butler analyzes Primo Levi's confrontation with his experience in the death camps, especially in his books "Survival at Auschwitz" and "The Drowned and the Saved". Butler then applies these thoughts to current debates on antisemitism and the question of the legitimacy of the Jewish State of Israel, the especially the rhetorical mine field one must cross in attempting a critical appraisal of the situation.