Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism / by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Carol Cosman.
2002
B778 .T5613 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism / by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Carol Cosman.
Author
Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-2017.
Uniform Title
Jardin imparfait. English
ISBN
9780691010472 (alk. paper)
0691010471 (alk. paper)
0691010471 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
Language
English
Description
viii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
B778 .T5613 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
144/.0944
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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