Lager e Gulag. Riflessioni sulla società concentrazionaria.

Lager e Gulag. Riflessioni sulla società concentrazionaria is about Nazi and Soviet Concentration Camps. It tries to show that this subject is still relevant, not only because Concentration Camp as an institution has never disappeared, but also because what happened in Germany and Russia in the first part of the XX century concerns Contemporary Age, so every human being today and in the future: that's why Lager e Gulag intends to be more than a descriptive monograph about the most impressive tragedy of the history. We could say that this work investigates a representative set of factors involved in the matter of totalitarian camps, from a philosophical, anthropological and theological perspective. It is divided in two parts: the first one deals with Concentration Camps in general (chapter I) and Nazi and Soviet Camps in particular (chapters II and III), seen as spaces where time, bodies and minds are brutally controlled by the authorities in order to dominate prisoners. The second one deals with disciplines and topics strictly connected with life and thinking inside Concentration Camps: biopolitics (chapter IV), behaviours (chapter V), faith (chapter VI); the quest for God after Auschwitz and Kolyma, the problem of evil and human nature (chapter VII). This Ph.D. thesis is therefore an attempt to focus on two different forms of the same “world apart”.