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The first-ever comprehensive examination of Tzvetan Todorov’s cultural theory and his place in European thought.
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Tzvetan Todorov
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…
Focusing on theories of verbal symbolism, Tzvetan Todorov here presents a history of semiotics.
From the author of On Human Diversity , Introduction to Poetics and Mikhail Bakhtin , this study examines the complex relationship between ethics and history .
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The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards’…
The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism. This struggle ended with the fall…
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Part history, part confession, part manifesto, Literature and Its Theorists is Tzvetan Todorov’s bold statement of what literature is and what criticism should be.
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In Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domain of rhetoric, and its reception, which has always been the object…
Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, this book argues that the…
This is a collection in translation of recent essays by Tzvelan Todorov, one of the most eminent of today’s literary critics. Todorov proposes definitions for the notions of literature, discourse…
Tzvetan Todorov,Stanley Hoffmann
* A new book by one of the world’s leading intellectuals. * Addresses the fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplified by the war on terrorism, war in Iraq…
Tzvetan Todorov (CNRS, Paris)
Recounts the author’s own experiences with totalitarianism in his native Bulgaria, offering a historical look at communism. This title reveals the essence of totalitarian ideology, the characteristics of daily life…
Examines the struggle between Totalitarianism and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. This book explores the history of the twentieth century not only by analyzing its spectacular…
This is a collection of testimonies from inmates, guards, commandants and bureaucrats whose lives were connected with one of the most brutal concentration camps in Communist Eastern Europe - the…
Studies the moral practices in concentration camps, uncovering the virtues that persevered throughout inhuman living conditions.
This is a 1982 anthology of studies by French literary theorists representing the most significant contributions to the field made in France in the preceding fifteen years. The essays cover…
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universitaet Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der folgenden Arbeit wird ein Profil der fantastischen Literatur mit Priorisierung des…
Professor Tzvetan Todorov (Cnrs Paris)
Sprachphilosophie, Logik, Linguistik, Semantik, Hermeneutik, Rhetorik, AEsthetik, Poetik - hinter all diesen Disziplinen verbirgt sich fur Tzvetan Todorov eine einheitliche Tradition. Er ladt uns ein, den Spuren dieser Tradition zu…
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Christoph Ewen
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universitat Trier, Veranstaltung: Phantastik in Literatur und Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit befasst sich…
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. This book features…
Argues that the use of the terms ‘war’ and ‘terror’ dehumanize the enemy and permit treatment that would otherwise be impermissible. This title examines the implications and corrupting impact of…
Julia Linnarz
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), course: American Romanticism and the Invention…
Tzvetan Todorov’s interpretation of Rousseau is one suffused with Todorov’s own moral seriousness and intellectual depth. While ranging widely through Rousseau’s corpus with skill and scholarly authority, Todorov returns, again…
Rousseau is often said to have discovered and invented our modernity , and the author’s interpretation centres on the question of what sort of life we can live in modern…
Francois Furet,Ernst Nolte
In his major work on communism, the international bestseller The Passing of an Illusion , the eminent French historian Francois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte’s…
