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1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Contents; Prologue: The Hidden Pact; Chapter 1: The Interplay of Four Families; Chapter 2: The Declaration of Autonomy; Chapter 3: Interdependence; Chapter 4: Living Alone; Chapter 5: The Ways of Love; Chapter 6: The Individual: Plurality and Universality; Chapter 7: The Choice of Values; Chapter 8: A Morality Made for Humanity; Chapter 9: The Need for Enthusiasm; Epilogue: The Humanist Wager; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Humanism -- France -- History.
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Humanism. |
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France. |
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History. |
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Individualism -- France -- History.
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Individualism. |
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Social values -- France -- History.
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Social values. |
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Philosophy, French.
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Philosophy, French. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Jardin imparfait. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001034054
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939- Jardin imparfait. English. Imperfect garden. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002 0691010471 (DLC) 2001036868 (OCoLC)47696826 |
| ISBN |
1400814758 (electronic book) |
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9781400814756 (electronic book) |
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9781400824908 (electronic book) |
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1400824907 (electronic book) |
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9780691010472 |
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0691010471 |
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