Life in Common : An Essay in General Anthropology

Name: Life in Common
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803294448
Price: 3400 KES
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ISBN: 9780803294448

by Tzvetan Todorov

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0803294441

ISBN-13 9780803294448

Publisher University of Nebraska Press

Imprint University of Nebraska Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 1st, 2001

Print length 175 Pages

Weight 234 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.10 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy Cultural studies Cultural studies Anthropology Philosophy

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Through the seventeenth century solitude was considered the human condition in the Western philosophical tradition. The self was not dependent on others to perceive itself as complete. This book features reflections on the debates on the concept of otherness and self, interdependence and solitude.

In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth 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 eighteenth 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.

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