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Nazi Concentration Camps and Biopolitics: Primo Levi and Giorgio Agamben on Auschwitz
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This essay examines the politics of the concentration camps and everyday experiences of camp inmates in Nazi Germany with reference to the concept of biopolitics, articulated by Giorgio Agamben and the witnesses of Primo Levi. Through the analysis of some key texts of Levi and Agamben, the essay would like to challenge the recent literature which tends to dismiss Agamben’s conceptualization of biopolitics of camps as metaphysical and ahistorical. Drawing heavily on the works of Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz-Monowitz, I will argue that Agamben’s theorization of biopolitics or tanatopolitica would provide a useful interpretive framework to the historians of the Nazi concentration camps. I then close by suggesting that Agamben’s conception of biopolitics could endow us with the means of opening up a new terrain of historiography of camps. I would like to term this new terrain as a transnational history of camps, which will open up multi-perspectives on the various camp systems through the diachronic and synchronic approaches. There is a real need for more comparative work, putting the Nazi camps into a wider historical continuum.
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This essay examines the politics of the concentration camps and everyday experiences of camp inmates in Nazi Germany with reference to the concept of biopolitics, articulated by Giorgio Agamben and the witnesses of Primo Levi. Through the analysis of some key texts of Levi and Agamben, the essay would like to challenge the recent literature which tends to dismiss Agamben’s conceptualization of biopolitics of camps as metaphysical and ahistorical. Drawing heavily on the works of Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz-Monowitz, I will argue that Agamben’s theorization of biopolitics or tanatopolitica would provide a useful interpretive framework to the historians of the Nazi concentration camps. I then close by suggesting that Agamben’s conception of biopolitics could endow us with the means of opening up a new terrain of historiography of camps. I would like to term this new terrain as a transnational history of camps, which will open up multi-perspectives on the various camp systems through the diachronic and synchronic approaches. There is a real need for more comparative work, putting the Nazi camps into a wider historical continuum.
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