Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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A Trip to Warsaw -- A Place for Moral Life? -- Heroism and Saintliness -- Dignity -- Caring -- The Life of the Mind -- Ordinary People -- Fragmentation -- Depersonalization -- The Enjoyment of Power -- Nonviolence and Resignation -- Forms of Combat -- The Perils of Judgment -- Telling, Judging, Understanding -- Notes on Morality.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 contemporaru morality.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Face à l'extrême.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Concentration camps-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Moral and ethical aspects.