In Defence of the Enlightenment
In this profound and provocative new book internationally renowned thinker Tzvetan Todorov defends the role of the Enlightenment as the philosophical cornerstone of the modern world and argues that the wisdom of the Enlightment thinkers is as relevant today, as it was in the eighteenth century.Although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living in democracies today can be baffled by phenomena which resist easy judgement: globalisation and media omnipotence, state-sponsored torture and disinformation, moralism and the right of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84354-813-3
- EAN: 9781843548133
- Produktnummer: 21834068
- Verlag: Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.8 cm 344 g
- Auflage: Main
- Gewicht: 344
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Tzvetan Todorov is a Honorary Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris. Critic, philosopher and historian, he has written many books including Hope and Memory (Atlantic 2004), which has been translated into eleven languages. He has recently received the international Principe de Asturias prize for his achievements.
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