04432nam 2200733Ia 450 991078005980332120210827031102.01-282-08752-597866120875231-4008-2490-71-4008-1475-810.1515/9781400824908(CKB)111056486499280(EBL)445557(OCoLC)609842112(SSID)ssj0000177066(PQKBManifestationID)11165327(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177066(PQKBWorkID)10210254(PQKB)10264206(OCoLC)52137253(MdBmJHUP)muse36118(DE-B1597)446276(OCoLC)979631549(DE-B1597)9781400824908(Au-PeEL)EBL445557(CaPaEBR)ebr10284255(CaONFJC)MIL208752(MiAaPQ)EBC445557(PPN)265134501(EXLCZ)9911105648649928020010726d2002 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrImperfect garden[electronic resource] the legacy of humanism /by Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Carol CosmanCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Pressc20021 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-16593-9 0-691-01047-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.Front matter --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 --IndexAvailable 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 works of major humanists--primarily Montaigne, Rousseau, and Constant, but also Descartes, Montesquieu, and Toqueville. Each chapter considers humanism's approach to one major theme of human existence: liberty, social life, love, self, morality, and expression. Discussing humanism in dialogue with other systems, Todorov finds a response to the predicament of modernity that is far more instructive than any offered by conservatism, scientific determinism, existential individualism, or humanism's other contemporary competitors. Humanism suggests that we are members of an intelligent and sociable species who can act according to our will while connecting the well-being of other members with our own. It is through this understanding of free will, Todorov argues, that we can use humanism to rescue universality and reconcile human liberty with solidarity and personal integrity. Placing the history of ideas at the service of a quest for moral and political wisdom, Todorov's compelling and no doubt controversial rethinking of humanist ideas testifies to the enduring capacity of those ideas to meditate on--and, if we are fortunate, cultivate--the imperfect garden in which we live.HumanismFranceHistoryIndividualismFranceHistorySocial valuesFranceHistoryPhilosophy, FrenchHumanismHistory.IndividualismHistory.Social valuesHistory.Philosophy, French.144/.0944Todorov Tzvetan1939-142300MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780059803321Imperfect garden3826551UNINA02615nam 2200577 a 450 991097361940332120200520144314.097866127881549781282788152128278815997802991126390299112632(CKB)2560000000052596(OCoLC)669500991(OCoLC)570823835(CaPaEBR)ebrary10413374(SSID)ssj0000424881(PQKBManifestationID)12109320(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424881(PQKBWorkID)10490781(PQKB)11490395(MiAaPQ)EBC3445080(Perlego)4386296(EXLCZ)99256000000005259620130710d1987 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierParsing through customs essays by a Freudian folklorist /Alan Dundes1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Press19871 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)Includes index.9780299112646 0299112640 Bibliography: p. 197-210.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore -- 2. Heads or Tails: A Psychoanalytic Study of Potlatch -- 3. The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes (with Jerry W. Leach and Bora Ozkok) -- 4. The Piropo and the Dual Image of Women in the Spanish-Speaking World (with Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco) -- 5. Couvade in Genesis -- 6. The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs in the Rabbit-Herd (AT 570) -- 7. The American Game of "Smear the Queer" and the Homosexual Component of Male Competitive Sport and Warfare -- Bibliography -- Index.In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes' work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children's games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth. Psychoanalysis and folklorePsychoanalysis and folklore.398/.019Dundes Alan483932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973619403321Parsing through customs4357820UNINA