Imperfect Garden - The Legacy of Humanism

About the author

Tzvetan Todorov is Research Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the author of many books, including The Conquest of America, On Human Diversity, The Morals of History, Facing the Extreme, and The Fragility of Goodness (Princeton). He writes regularly for the New Republic, Salmagundi, and other publications.

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 excavat

Product details

• Authors: Tzvetan Todorov, Todorov Tzvetan
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2014
• EAN: 9780691165936
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16593-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion