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Facing the Extreme - Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (Paperback, Berkeley Trade ed.) Loot Price: R524
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Facing the Extreme - Moral Life in the Concentration Camps (Paperback, Berkeley Trade ed.)

Tzvetan Todorov; Translated by Abigail Pollak

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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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Imprint: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1997
First published: April 1997
Authors: Tzvetan Todorov
Translators: Abigail Pollak
Dimensions: 229 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 307
Edition: Berkeley Trade ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-4264-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
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LSN: 0-8050-4264-4
Barcode: 9780805042641

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