Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps

“Graceful and gigantic . . . a fascinating tour through the subtlety, integrity, and brute honesty of Todorov's thought.”
—The New York Times Book Review

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 th...