Imperfect Garden (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tzvetan Todorov
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: History and philosophy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History
- Subjects: Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, France or French people, Religion, Conservatism, Thought or thinking, Reason or reasoning, Theism
Imperfect Garden is an unusual book to be published in the early twenty-first century. In a period of deconstruction, new historicism, and poststructuralism, the book is a very old- fashioned history-of-ideas analysis that looks back to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment for a guide to the principles people should live by today. The subtitle of the book does not call into question the “legacy of humanism” but celebrates it as the only coherent philosophy that Western society has. Tzvetan Todorov’s primary sources for humanism are all French thinkers of the sixteenth to...
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