Life in Common

An Essay in General Anthropology

By:

Tzvetan Todorov

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Paperback / softback

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This title explores the construction of the self and offers perspectives on debates about otherness. Through the 17th 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 of this thinking beginning with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 18th century. For the first time the self was defined as incomplete without the other, and the gaze no longer served only to satisfy personal vanity but constituted the fundamental requisite for human identity. Todorov traces the far-reaching implications of Rousseau's new vision of the self and society through the political, philosophical, and psychoanalytical theories of Adam Smith, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georges Bataille, Melanie Klein, and others, and the relevant literary works of Karl Philipp Moritz, the Marquis de Sade, and Marcel Proust. In an original study of the bond between parent and child, Todorov develops a compelling vision of the self as social.

Author Biography:

Tzvetan Todorov is the author of numerous works, including Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps. Katherine Golsan is an associate professor of French at the University of the Pacific and translator of Fascism and Communism by François Furet and Ernst Nolte. Lucy Golsan is a retired professor of French. Her translations include Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs.

Release date NZ

March 1st, 2001

Author

Tzvetan Todorov

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Translated by Katherine Golsan
Translated by Lucy Golsan

Pages

175

Dimensions

140x216x10

ISBN-13

9780803294448

Product ID

3792851

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