Face a l'Extreme

Name: Face a l'Extreme
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ISBN: 9780805042641

ISBN-10: 0805042644

ISBN-13: 9780805042641

Edition: 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Tzvetan Todorov

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 307
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



A Trip to Warsaw


A Place for Moral Life?


Heroism and Saintliness


Dignity


Caring


The Life of the Mind


Ordinary People


Fragmentation


Depersonalization


The Enjoyment of Power


Nonviolence and Resignation


Forms of Combat


The Perils of Judgment


Telling, Judging, Understanding


Notes on Morality


Works Cited


Index