"consider if this is a person": Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, and the political significance of Auschwitz

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 266-292

  Howes, Dustin Ells ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61949217479     PISSN: 87566583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn031     Document Type: Article

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