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Facing the Extreme

by Tzvetan Todorov

5 · 307 pages · First published 1996

An examination of the human capacity for moral life; reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Also offers an elequent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality.

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Subjects

Concentration campsHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspectsMoral and ethical aspects of Concentration campsMoral and ethical aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Moral and ethical aspects of TotalitarianismTotalitarianismPrisons, soviet unionNew York Times reviewedInternment campsNazi concentration camps
Publishers
Trafalgar Square, Metropolitan Books, Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Owl Books, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Languages
eng