Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Book

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.Read More

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  • 0805042636
  • 9780805042634
  • Tzvetan Todorov
  • 1 January 1996
  • Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 307
  • 1st American Ed
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