Ash Above the Abyss

This book is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenology of Nazi concentration camps (concentration worlds) in Russian historiography, as a special system that globally transformed everything that was in the orbit of its influence - from time, history and space to human anthropology and psychology. Expectation and clothing, food and hunger, violence and pain, language and silence, fear and death - each of these phenomena took its place in the general picture of the total anthropological and psychophysical deformations of a person who fell into the space of the camp. How were the philosophy and theology of "after Auschwitz, why did the liberation from the camp transform did not give freedom? For all those interested in the history of World War II, social history, social anthropology, the social thought of Europe of the middle - the second half of the 20th century