Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues From Testimony to Ethics [Hardcover]

This book explores the extraordinary depth of Levi the ethical writer across his entire oeuvre, by way of thirteen so-called ordinary virtues --the ways and means Levi forges for practically and compassionately engaging with the world. It draws on a wide range of recent thinking about Holocaust literature and the general relationship between literature and ethics.

Abreviations
Introduction: Beyond Testimony
I: The Ethical Turn
1. Looking
2. Memory
3. Discretion, or Language and Silence
4. Uses
II: Wit, or Practical Intelligence
5. Measure, or a Sense of Limit
6. Practice, or Trial and Error
7. Perspective, or Looking Again
8. Invention, or First Things
III: Community
9. Common Sense
10. Friendship
11. Storytelling
IV: Diversions
12. Irony, or Wit Revisited
13. Play
Bibliography
Index