Study Questions: Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz, pp. 109-173

 

·        Where in Levi do you see examples of texts we have read throughout the semester? Luther? Descartes? Bacon? Hobbes? Rousseau? Locke? Marx? Smith?

·        Is Survival in Auschwitz ultimately an affirmation of humanity or a repudiation of it?

·        What does the text have to say about concepts of justice, morality and dignity?

·        How is Levi’s worldview similar to the Nazis?