Any large organization charged with a purpose it successfully carries out ought to be subject to a sociological analysis, yet no one before Wolfgang Sofsky has ever tried to write the sociology of the concentration camp. It is not hard to understand why. Pick any term from the classical tradition in sociology-whether its origins are attributed to Marx, Weber, or Durkheim-and (...)
May 23, 1997
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The Order of Terror
The Order of TerrorThe Concentration Campby Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William TemplerPrinceton University Press, $29.95, 356 pp.
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