Let us be human: Primo Levi and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 444-459

  Sparti, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

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EID: 36749025963     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2005.0036     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo, in Opere, 3 vols. (Torino: Einaudi, 1997), vol. I, p. 20 (hereafter Opere)
2. Se questo è un uomo has been misleadingly translated with the title Survival in Auschwitz, as though the book were simply a memoir
3. Stanley Cavell, "Knowing and Acknowledging," Must We Mean What We Say? (New York: Scribner, 1969), p. 263. Hereafter, KA
4. See Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980), vol. I, §1102
5. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology: The Inner and the Outer, vol. 2, G. H. von Wright and H. Nyman, eds. (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1992), p. 38. Hereafter, LW
6. See Marie McGinn, "The Real Problem of Others: Cavell, Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on Scepticism about Other Minds," European Journal of Philosophy 6 (1998): 45-58
7. See also Peter Winch, "Eine Einstellung zur Seele," in Trying to Make Sense (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), pp. 140-53
8. See PI, part II, § xi. See also Zettel (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), § 183 (hereafter Z)
9. See Robert Antelme, La specie umana, trans. Giudetta Vittoriani (Torino: Einaudi, 1996), p. 63
10. See Raimond Gaita, "Ethical Individuality" in R. Gaita, ed., Value and Understanding. Essays for Peter Winch (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 118-48
11. See Stanley Cavell, "Declining Decline," This New Yet Unapproachable America. Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein (Albuquerque: Living Batch Press, 1989), p. 109