LEADER 04428nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910812105103321 005 20210827031102.0 010 $a1-282-08752-5 010 $a9786612087523 010 $a1-4008-2490-7 010 $a1-4008-1475-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824908 035 $a(CKB)111056486499280 035 $a(EBL)445557 035 $a(OCoLC)609842112 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177066 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165327 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177066 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210254 035 $a(PQKB)10264206 035 $a(OCoLC)52137253 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36118 035 $a(DE-B1597)446276 035 $a(OCoLC)979631549 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824908 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445557 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284255 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208752 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445557 035 $a(PPN)265134501 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486499280 100 $a20010726d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperfect garden$b[electronic resource] $ethe legacy of humanism /$fby Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Carol Cosman 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-16593-9 311 0 $a0-691-01047-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue. The Hidden Pact --$tChapter 1. The Interplay of Four Families --$tChapter 2. The Declaration of Autonomy --$tChapter 3. Interdependence --$tChapter 4. Living Alone --$tChapter 5. The Ways of Love --$tChapter 6. The Individual: PLURALITY AND UNIVERSALITY --$tChapter 7. The Choice of Values --$tChapter 8. A Morality Made for Humanity --$tChapter 9. The Need for Enthusiasm --$tEpilogue. The Humanist Wager --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAvailable 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. 606 $aHumanism$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aIndividualism$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aSocial values$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy, French 615 0$aHumanism$xHistory. 615 0$aIndividualism$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial values$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy, French. 676 $a144/.0944 700 $aTodorov$b Tzvetan$f1939-$0142300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812105103321 996 $aImperfect garden$93919686 997 $aUNINA