Duties and Delights
The Life of a Go-Between
Todorov, Tzvetan
Portevin, Catherine (CON)
Walker, Gila (TRN)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Tzvetan Todorov is one of Europes leading intellectuals. Beyond his work in cultural and literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis, Todorovs influence is extraordinarily far-reaching specifically because of the clarity of his writing and his refusal to be bound by systems of thought and disciplinary straitjackets. Todorovs many writings include The Poetics of Prose, The Conquest of America, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, On Human Diversity, Hope and Memory, Imperfect Garden: Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European. Duties and Delights presents a series of interviews with Tzvetan Todorov which illuminate the paths that he has taken, the paths that he has crossed and the paths that he has opened up for others.
AUTHOR BIO
Tzvetan Todorov is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has taught widely in the English-speaking world, notably in Harvard, Yale, Columbia and University of California.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: To Live According to NuanceA Peasant from the DanubeFrom Poetry to StructuresCriticism of StructuralismThe Peasant in ParisHuman DiversityThe Humanist BarkHumanism: Practices and WorksThe Moral Meaning of HistoryMemory and JusticeThe Contiguity of OppositesEpilogue: The Life of a Go-Between
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 190542289X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781905422890
Dewey Decimal: 891.7142
Library of Congress: 2009275647
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 412
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