| Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Berkeley Trade Edition Contributor(s): Todorov, Tzvetan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805042644 ISBN-13: 9780805042641 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1997 Annotation: The Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulag provide the context for this acclaimed examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, Todorov reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. His complex and profound study restores a lost dimension to an anguished history, even as it offers an eloquent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 940.531 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 307 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust |
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| Publisher Description: The Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag provide the context for this acclaimed examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, Tzvetan Todorov reconstructs a vivid portrait of the conduct of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Challenging the widespread view that moral life was extinguished in the extreme circumstances of the camps, he uncovers instead a rich moral universe, composed not of grand acts of heroism but of ordinary gestures of dignity and care, compassion and solidarity. A complex and profound study, Facing the Extreme restores a lost dimension to this anguished history, even as it offers an eloquent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Todorov, Tzvetan: - Tzvetan Todorov is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has taught widely in the English-speaking world, notably in Harvard, Yale, Columbia and University of California. |