Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration CampsMacmillan, 15 avr. 1997 - 307 pages 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. |
Table des matières
A Trip to Warsaw | 3 |
A Place for Moral Life? | 31 |
NEITHER HEROES NOR SAINTS | 45 |
NEITHER MONSTERS NOR BEASTS | 119 |
Nonviolence and Resignation | 197 |
Forms of Combat | 213 |
The Perils of Judgment | 229 |
Notes on Morality | 285 |
297 | |
303 | |
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Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Tzvetan Todorov Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps Tzvetan Todorov Aucun aperçu disponible - 2000 |