Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps - Brossura

Todorov, Tzvetan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0805042644 ISBN 13: 9780805042641

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 1997

Riassunto

Studies the moral practices in concentration camps, uncovering the virtues that persevered throughout inhuman living conditions

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L'autore:

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.

Product Description:

The Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulags provide the context for Tzvetan Todorov's unparalleled examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, from little-known memoirs by eyewitnesses and survivors to the works of Primo Levi and Jetty Hillesum, Eugenia Ginzburg and Albert Speer, 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 innumerable ordinary gestures of dignity and care, compassion and solidarity. These 'everyday virtues', Todorov argues, allowed inmates to survive morally intact in the most immoral and inhuman of conditions.A complex and profound meditation, "Facing the Extremes" 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805042644
• ISBN 13: 9780805042641
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316