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Douglas Smith, Irish Times
The imperfect garden is a frustrating place to live, Todorov admits, but it shouldn¹t be abandoned to the snakes in the grass.
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In Todorov's own terms, he has rejected both his own scientist past and the individualist alternative in order to join the humanists; and it is one of the great merits of this book, readably translated by Carol Casman, that it poses questions of choice and freedom, the rights and responsibilities of the individual at a moment when the French electorate ponders the meaning of its humanist traditions and the strength or weakness of its liberal democracy. The imperfect garden is a frustrating place to live, Todorov admits, but it shouldn't be abandoned to the snakes in the grass.
(Douglas Smith Irish Times )
How, Todorov asks, can thinkers from centuries ago speak to our concerns? In addressing this difficult, urgent, and quintessentially humanist question, Todorov's The Imperfect Garden exemplifies the rich legacy it so eloquently describes.
(Carol E. Quillen The American Scholar )
It is comforting to read an intelligent defence of liberal humanism. Like the authors he focuses on, Todorov is tolerant, understanding and wise.
(English Showalter The Observer )
It is comforting to read an intelligent defense of liberal humanism. Like the authors he focuses on, Todorov is tolerant, understanding and wise.
(English Showalter The Guardian )
Tzvetan Todorov's book on the humanist legacy is written very much in the spirit of Montaigne. . . . It offers a wide-ranging meditation on the open-endedness of human life, on the freedom and the sociability that are its only givens, and on the minimal ethic of autonomy and responsibility to others that they ought to inspire. Yet the book is by no means a hymn to man. Todorov harbors no illusions about the mix of good and bad that enters into the fabric of all that is human. . . . [He] . . . speaks throughout in his own voice, with rare breadth of sympathy and with a fine eye for the complexities of human experience.
(Charles Larmore The New Republic )
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The imperfect garden is a frustrating place to live, Todorov admits, but it shouldn¹t be abandoned to the snakes in the grass.
Review
In Todorov's own terms, he has rejected both his own scientist past and the individualist alternative in order to join the humanists; and it is one of the great merits of this book, readably translated by Carol Casman, that it poses questions of choice and freedom, the rights and responsibilities of the individual at a moment when the French electorate ponders the meaning of its humanist traditions and the strength or weakness of its liberal democracy. The imperfect garden is a frustrating place to live, Todorov admits, but it shouldn't be abandoned to the snakes in the grass.
(Douglas Smith Irish Times )
How, Todorov asks, can thinkers from centuries ago speak to our concerns? In addressing this difficult, urgent, and quintessentially humanist question, Todorov's The Imperfect Garden exemplifies the rich legacy it so eloquently describes.
(Carol E. Quillen The American Scholar )
It is comforting to read an intelligent defence of liberal humanism. Like the authors he focuses on, Todorov is tolerant, understanding and wise.
(English Showalter The Observer )
It is comforting to read an intelligent defense of liberal humanism. Like the authors he focuses on, Todorov is tolerant, understanding and wise.
(English Showalter The Guardian )
Tzvetan Todorov's book on the humanist legacy is written very much in the spirit of Montaigne. . . . It offers a wide-ranging meditation on the open-endedness of human life, on the freedom and the sociability that are its only givens, and on the minimal ethic of autonomy and responsibility to others that they ought to inspire. Yet the book is by no means a hymn to man. Todorov harbors no illusions about the mix of good and bad that enters into the fabric of all that is human. . . . [He] . . . speaks throughout in his own voice, with rare breadth of sympathy and with a fine eye for the complexities of human experience.
(Charles Larmore The New Republic )
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