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The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European
Tzvetan Todorov
Polity, 2005
This illuminating analysis by one of the world's leading intellectuals addresses fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplified by the war on terrorism, the Iraq conflict and its aftermath and the current state of transatlantic relations. In eight concise chapters, Todorov discusses the use of force versus diplomacy, ...
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Fascism and Communism (European Horizons)
Francois Furet, Ernst Nolte
University of Nebraska Press, 2001
A Great Small Book
This book is made up of correspondence between the French historian Francois Furet (best known for "The Passing of an Illusion") and German historian Ernst Nolte (best known for "Three Faces of Fascism" and more controversial later writings such as "The European Civil ...
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Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology (European Horizons)
Tzvetan Todorov
University of Nebraska Press, 2001
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 ...
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Introduction to Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)
Tzvetan Todorov
University of Minnesota Press, 1981
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The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Cornell Paperbacks)
Tzvetan Todorov
Cornell University Press, 1975
What Todorov Means!
This book is a great achievement in criticism, but one should be warned that Todorov is not talking about elves and dragons when he uses the term "Fantastic." In this book Todorov advances his definition of the fantastic as a "hesitation" or inability to decide ...
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
Tzvetan Todorov
University of Oklahoma Press, 1999
Columbus and the Making of the Savage Other
In The Conquest of America Todorov delves deeply into the dark consequences (intended and unintended) of the European discovery of the Americas and represents the first important study of the influence of religious belief on the interactions beginning with Columbus ...
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Theories of the Symbol
Tzvetan Todorov
Cornell University Press, 1984
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Genres in Discourse (Literature, Culture, Theory)
Tzvetan Todorov
Cambridge University Press, 1990
Literature, Broken Down into Its Components
Tzvetan Todorov has become a giant in literary criticism ever since his first emergence as a thinker in the 1960's. GENRES IN DISCOURSE - this English translation by Catherine Porter appeared in 1990 - is a slim but intellectually dense treatise on what differentiates ...
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The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
Tzvetan Todorov
Princeton University Press, 2003
Ambiguous book
It is no big surprise that Todorov published a book on the Bulgarian Jews' salvation issue. First, it goes within the major topic of his later research: the value of ethics in extreme circumstances. Second, his Bulgarian origin should made him, even for simply ...
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Voices from the Gulag: Life and Death in Communist Bulgaria
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999
The Forgotten Gulag
Todorov's book is a great read for both students of East European history and political violence. The book is a careful compilation and editing of recently published memoirs and TV documentaries that reveal the brutality of the Communist concentration camps. The book ...
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Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
Tzvetan Todorov
Holt Paperbacks, 1997
a gripping study of the moral life under duress
There are no shortage of books that deal with the Holocaust, but this work by the Bulgarian writer Todorov offers a rare and sensitive insight into how we understand and cope with evil. The writer has the courage to challenge the tendency by victims to own the ...
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Symbolism and Interpretation
Tzvetan Todorov
Cornell Univ Pr, 1982
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Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (Theory & History of Literature)
Tzvetan Todorov
University of Minnesota Press, 1984
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Frail Happiness: An Essay on Rousseau
Tzvetan Todorov
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001
"We are all confronted, at one time or another, with choices as to what sort of life we will lead". So Tzvetan Todorov begins Frail Happiness, a provocative meditation on the thought and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Todorov turned to Rousseau, he tells us, because he no longer found the professional language of scholarship an effective means ...
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On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought (Convergences: Inventories of the ...
Tzvetan Todorov
Harvard University Press, 1998
How can we think about peoples and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the eighteenth century this view was gradually abandoned, as thinkers argued that other peoples possessed reason and ...
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