by Tzvetan Todorov · Suhrkamp Verlag AG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518112137
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«Die Eroberung Amerikas: Das Problem des Anderen» is the historical essay by Tzvetan Todorov, published by Suhrkamp Verlag AG in paperback (314 pages, in German).
The essay analyzes the Spanish conquest of America in the sixteenth century and the encounter between the Old and New Worlds. Todorov examines chronicles of the period to show how the misunderstanding of the other marked both conquerors and indigenous peoples, and reflects on the ethics of that clash and its echo in modern alterity.
Essay originally published in French as «La Conquête de l'Amérique. La question de l'autre» (1982); the German translation is by Wilfried Böhringer. Number 1213 in the edition suhrkamp series.
For readers with a command of German interested in colonial history, philosophy of alterity and cultural studies.
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist. He was the author of many books and essays, which have had a significant influence in anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory, intellectual history and culture theory.
