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Todorov, Tzvetan

 
9780803294448: Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology
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ISBN 10 : 0803294441 ISBN 13 : 9780803294448
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2001

Synopsis

In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the human condition in the Western philosophical tradition. The self was not dependent on others to perceive itself as complete. Todorov sees a reversal of this thinking beginning with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century. For the first time the self was defined as incomplete without the other, and the gaze no longer served only to satisfy personal vanity but constituted the fundamental requisite for human identity. Todorov traces the far-reaching implications of Rousseau's new vision of the self and society through the political, philosophical, and psychoanalytical theories of Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Bataille, Melanie Klein, and others, and the relevant literary works of Karl Philipp Moritz, the Marquis de Sade, and Marcel Proust. In an original study of the bond between parent and child, Todorov develops a compelling vision of the self as social.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tzvetan Todorov is the author of numerous works, including Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps. Katherine Golsan is an associate professor of French at the University of the Pacific and translator of Fascism and Communism by François Furet and Ernst Nolte. Lucy Golsan is a retired professor of French. Her translations include Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803294441
ISBN 13 
9780803294448
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
175
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ISBN 10 :  0803244207 ISBN 13 :  9780803244207
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2001
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