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Author Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-2017

Title Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism / by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Carol Cosman
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index
Notes Translated from the French
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Subject Humanism -- France -- History
Individualism -- France -- History
Social values -- France -- History
Philosophy, French.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Humanism
Individualism
Philosophy, French
Social values
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400814758
9781400814756
9781400824908
1400824907
Other Titles Jardin imparfait. English