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n o t e s prologue. answering auschwitz: levi’s science and humanism as antifascism Stanislao G. Pugliese 1. Theodor Adorno, from his 1949 essay ‘‘Cultural Criticism and Society,’’ reprinted in Prisms, trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981 [1967]), 17–34. 2. Theodore Adorno, Negative Dialectics, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York: Seabury Press, 1973), 361. 3. Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, trans. Stuart Woolf (New York: Collier, 1961), 59. 4. Ibid., 22. 5. The reader should know of a recent work by one of this volume’s contributors, Jonathan Druker, Primo Levi and the Fate of Humanism After Auschwitz (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), that offers a radically different interpretation than the one presented here. 6. From ‘‘Vanadium,’’ in The Periodic Table, 223. 7. ‘‘Trauma/Transgression/Testimony,’’ in The Legacy of Primo Levi, ed. Stanislao G. Pugliese (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 3–15, and in a paper ‘‘Primo Levi’s Politics’’ at a conference at Yale University in April 2008, published in New Reflections on Primo Levi: Before and After Auschwitz, ed. Millicent Marcus and Risa Sodi (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). 8. ‘‘Why Auschwitz?’’ in Shema: Collected Poems of Primo Levi, trans. Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann (London: Menard Press, 1976), 45–46. 9. Ibid., 51. 10. Primo Levi in Corriere della Sera, May 8, 1974; reprinted in L’asimmetria e la vita, ed. Marco Belpoliti (Turin: Einaudi, 2002); translated as ‘‘The Past We Thought Would Never Return,’’ in The Black Hole of Auschwitz, trans. Sharon Wood (New York: Polity Press, 2005), 34. 11. ‘‘Itinerary of a Jewish Writer,’’ in The Black Hole of Auschwitz, 164. 12. Elie Wiesel, Legends of Our Time, trans. Stephen Donadio (New York: Avon, 1970), 230. 247 248 Notes to pages 3–9 13. Eva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). 14. Emil L. Fackenheim, To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 303. 15. Dustin Kidd, ‘‘The Aesthetics of Truth, The Aesthetics of Time: George Steiner and the Retreat from the World,’’ December 1998, http:// xroads.virginia.edu/⬃ma99/kidd/resume/steiner.html. 16. Harold Kaplan, Conscience & Memory: Meditation in a Museum of the Holocaust (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 150. 17. For the only biography of Rosselli in English, see Stanislao G. Pugliese, Carlo Rosselli: Socialist Heretic and Antifascist Exile (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999). 18. The best study of Nello’s religious beliefs is Bruno Di Porto’s essay ‘‘Il problema ebraico in Nello Rosselli,’’ in Giustizia e Libertà nella lotta antifascista, ed. Carlo Francovich (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1978), 491–499. Nello’s speech is quoted in Renzo De Felice, Storia degli ebrei italiani sotto il fascismo, 89–90; English translation in Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust (New York: Basic Books, 1987), 246. 19. See especially Robert S. C. Gordon, Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). 20. Stanislao G. Pugliese, ‘‘The Antidote to Fascism,’’ in Carla Pekelis, My Version of the Facts (Evanston, Ill.: Marlboro Press/Northwestern University Press, 2004), vii. 21. Isaiah Berlin, ‘‘Notes on Prejudice,’’ in New York Review of Books, October 18, 2001, 12. 22. Carlo Levi, Paura della libertà (Turin: Einaudi, 1946); reprinted in Scritti politici, edited by David Bidussa (Turin: Einaudi, 2001), 132–204; for a recent English translation, see Fear of Freedom, trans. Adophe Gourevitch, ed. Stanislao G. Pugliese (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008). 23. Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli, trans. Frances Frenaye (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), 252. 24. See, for example, the interview with Frank Bruni that appeared on the front page of the New York Times, May 10, 2003. 25. ‘‘Lascerei volontieri ad altri l’amaro calice.’’ See Federico Garimberti, ‘‘È Fini il mio successore,’’ in America Oggi, January 27, 2007, 5. 26. See the interview with Boris Johnson and Nicholas Farrell, The Spectator , September 11, 2003. 27. Bruce Cutler, ‘‘Final Examination,’’ in Seeing the Darkness (Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press, 1998), 13–14. 28. Umberto Eco, ‘‘Ur-Fascism,’’ New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995, 12–15. [44.192.247.144] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 06:50 GMT) 249 Notes to pages 11–20 29. Ibid. 30. Miklos Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account (New York: Arcade, 1993), 57–58. 31. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit, 1988), 55...