Facing the extreme
Subtitle: moral life in the concentration camps
By: Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollak.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Concentration camps -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Totalitarianism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-301) and index.