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Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology
Tzvetan Todorov
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Description for Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803294448
SKU
V9780803294448
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About Tzvetan Todorov
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology
"In this dazzling short meditation on the nature of human relationships, noted French philosopher Todorov makes a scholarly and densely argued yet readable contribution to contemporary debates about the self... (He) often delivers jarringly illuminating insights... A powerful meditation."-Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly "Tzvetan Todorov's essay on anthropology reveals the same mixture of moral urgency and intellectual acuity manifest in his ... Read more