Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism /
"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 Europe's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but...
| Основен автор: | Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English French |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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Sample text Table of contents Publisher description |
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"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 Europe'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." "Placing the history of ideas at the service of a quest for moral and political wisdom, Todorov's compelling and no doubt controversial rethinking of humanist ideas testifies to the enduring capacity of those ideas to meditate on - and, if we are fortunate, cultivate - the imperfect garden in which we live."--Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
viii, 254 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0691010471 9780691010472 |