Imperfect Garden: The Legacy of Humanism

by Tzvetan Todorov

Book Overview

Available 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691165939
• ISBN13: 9780691165936
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"