La transcendència d’Auschwitz: una aproximació filosòfica a Primo Levi

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This article comments on some of the attempts to reflect on Auschwitz in philosophical thinking and to demonstrate, at the same time, that almost all are impotent in the face of the exceptional nature and gravity of Auschwitz. To begin with, the same concepts with which we designate the extermination show that we do not have enough words to describe it: holocaust comes from the Greek holócautos, which means “sacrifice by fire” and is used in Christian tradition to indicate the doctrine of sacrifice. And the other word, shoah (sho’ah), in Hebrew means “destruction and catastrophe”, with the connotation, however, of divine punishment ​
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