Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 254 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691010471
,
1400824907
,
1400814758
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9780691010472
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9781400824908
,
9781400814756
Originaltitel:
Jardin imparfait
Inhalt:
Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too dearly in social ties, common values, and a coherent and responsible sense of self. Todorov reads afresh the
Inhalt:
Contents; Prologue: The Hidden Pact; Chapter 1: The Interplay of Four Families; Chapter 2: The Declaration of Autonomy; Chapter 3: Interdependence; Chapter 4: Living Alone; Chapter 5: The Ways of Love; Chapter 6: The Individual: Plurality and Universality; Chapter 7: The Choice of Values; Chapter 8: A Morality Made for Humanity; Chapter 9: The Need for Enthusiasm; Epilogue: The Humanist Wager; Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index
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Translated from the French
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939- Imperfect garden Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2002
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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Mehr zum Autor:
Todorov, Cvetan 1939-2017
