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1. Both Levi and Haffner see their respective experiences as a crisis for humanity. "The story of the death camps should be understood by everyone as a sinister alarm signal (Levi, p.9)". "…it is precisely the Nazi’s anti-Semitism that raises the most basic questions of existence, and not just for the Jews (Haffner, p. 144)." Why do they see this as a crisis for humanity? How does this assessment shape their respective approaches?
2. Both Levi and Haffner see their respective experiences as a crisis for the western tradition in which they were educated. Why do they think this? How does this assessment shape their particular approaches?
3. Compare the respective views of Haffner and Levi on the idea of ‘human nature’ and its relation to society or civilization (specifically, Haffner presents a picture of human nature in his discussion of the ‘wolf virus’; Levi provides a variant in the beginning of his discussion of the chapter on the Drowned and the Saved).I argued that their respective ideas of human nature are quite different. In effect, are they?
4. Levi notes that in the social and political life of the nation, it is quite common that ‘every stranger appears as an enemy’. Specific conditions can make this sentiment dangerous to both individuals and to civil society (p. 9). I argued that both writers are alert to this ‘dynamic of otherness’ and its consequences. Discuss with examples.
5. Both these texts could be characterized as tales of moral failure. Yet Haffner says of his book that ‘there is an underlying moral’ that he ‘would be pleased that {the reader} remember’. In your view, what is it, and what is the underlying moral of Levi’s book? How do these moral failures the authors explore connect to any underlying moral you find in them?
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