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Imperfect garden : the legacy of humanism /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400814758 9781400814756 9781400824908 1400824907 |