Imperfect Garden : The Legacy of Humanism /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social values.
Philosophy, French.
Individualism.
Humanism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Philosophie française.
Valeurs sociales > France > Histoire.
Humanisme > France > Histoire.
Social values > France > History.
Individualism > France > History.
Humanism > France > History.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9781400824908

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