Военная история / Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps

Название: Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
Автор: Tzvetan Todorov
Издательство: Metropolitan Books
Год: 1996
Страниц: 328
Язык: English
Формат: PDF OCR
Размер: 58 MB

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 Extremerestores 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.