Life in common : an essay in general anthropology / by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan ; with a new afterword by the author
- Bib ID:
- 1076685
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-
- Uniform Title:
- Vie commune. English
- Description:
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- Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2001
- xii, 174 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0803244207 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 0803294441 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- European horizons.
- Summary:
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"In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. 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. Todorov sees a reversal of this thinking beginning with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century. For the first time the self was defined as incomplete without the other, the fundamental requisite for human identity. Todorov traces the far-reaching implications of Rousseau's new vision of the self and society through the political, philosophical, and psychoanalytical theories of Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Bataille, Melanie Klein, and others, and the relevant literary works of Karl Philipp Moritz, the Marquis de Sade, and Marcel Proust.
In a study of the bond between parent and child, Todorov develops a compelling vision of the self as social."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. A Brief Look at the History of Thought
- 2. To Be, to Live, to Exist
- 3. Recognition and Its Destinies
- 4. Structure of the Person
- 5. Coexistence and Fulfillment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2001
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