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Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Paperback - 1997

by Tzvetan Todorov; Abigail Pollak (Translator); Arthur Denner (Translator)

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.


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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.

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and bottles would be perfectly adequate against German tanks. Later, Pelczynski would say the same: "We saw their material superiority over us.

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  • Title Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
  • Author Tzvetan Todorov; Abigail Pollak (Translator); Arthur Denner (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 307
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York, New York
  • Date 1997-04-01
  • ISBN 9780805042641 / 0805042644
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Moral and, Totalitarianism - Moral and ethical aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

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  • New York Times, 05/11/1997, Page 32

About the author

Tzvetan Todorov is the director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris and the author of many highly acclaimed works, including The Conquest of America.

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