Langer, Lawrence L: VERSIONS OF SURVIVAL The Holocaust and the Human Spirit

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Langer, Lawrence L : VERSIONS OF SURVIVAL The Holocaust and the Human Spirit

State University of New York Press, 1982

ISBN 0873955846

Ex-library with heavy laminated cover and usual stamps & stickers - only light wear overall. Light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior clean & unmarked other than library stamps. Donation plate inside cover. 267 pages. Focuses on the efforts to rehabilitate the human image after it has been tempered in the crucible of the Holocaust. It examines the ways in which psychology, language, and literary art distort or illuminate that effort. It insists on the importance of confronting the inhuman, to say nothing of the unthinkable, when probing survival during the Holocaust and the sources of man's moral being.....Also assesses and challenges some of the more comfortable and comforting conclusions about the survival experience as set forth by Bruno Bettelheim, Viktor Frankl, and Terrence Des Pres...... (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo, Very Good

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