Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps

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  • Author : Tzvetan Todorov
  • Binding : Paperback
  • Creator : Abigail Pollak
  • EAN : 9780805042641
  • Edition : 1st Owl Books Ed
  • ISBN : 0805042644
  • Label : Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Number Of Pages : 307
  • Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 8.90 inches (Length) x 0.95 pounds (Weight) x 6.00 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 1997-04-01
  • Publisher : Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • SKU : 12211132
  • Studio : Henry Holt & Company Inc

It is an understatement to call the Nazi and Soviet death camps "outposts of hell on earth", as we know from the testimony of a powerful body of witnesses. Todorov looks inside these camps, and there he finds hope for all humankind, arguing that innumerable instances of heroism, self-sacrifice, and caring show that "moral reactions are spontaneous, omnipresent, and eradicable only with the greatest violence" and that "morality cannot disappear without a radical mutation of the human species". Even in a regime of terror and depersonalisation, the ordinary virtues survived and sometimes even flourished, Todorov maintains. His wide-ranging study bears him out, and it makes for fascinating reading.

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