| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-04-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
The Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulag provide the context for this acclaimed examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, Todorov reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. His complex and profound study restores a lost dimension to an anguished history, even as it offers an eloquent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality.
Industry Reviews
"A brilliant analysis of moral psychology under fire....A magnificent book."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Carlin Romano
"Todorov has original and surprising insight into the moral condition of those in camps; but most important are his reflections on how the fragmentation and depersonalization of modern life contributed to that evil."
Hampshire
"'Facing the Extreme' challenges the accepted view that moral life was extinguished in the harrowing circumstances of the camps. Todorov uncovers instead a rich moral universe, made up not of grand acts of heroism but of countless gestures of dignity and kindness and creativity."
Leonard
"Tzvetan Todorov's 'Facing the Extreme' attempts to analyze how people behaved in both the German and Soviet concentration camps and to examine much of the literature of the Holocaust and of the Soviet Gulag. He has written an intellectually honest, unpretentious, and deeply optimistic book, which is almost religious in its conviction that goodness existed in the midst of the worst atrocities and, in fact,
arose in response to those atrocities."
New York Review of Books - Istvan Deak (06/26/1997)
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