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Todorov, Tzvetan

 
9780805042641: Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0805042644 ISBN 13 : 9780805042641
Editeur : Henry Holt & Co, 1997

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Tzvetan Todorov is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has taught widely in the English-speaking world, notably in Harvard, Yale, Columbia and University of California.

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Éditeur
Henry Holt & Co
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0805042644
ISBN 13 
9780805042641
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
316
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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