by Tzvetan Todorov · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221106662
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«L'esprit des Lumières» is the philosophical essay by Tzvetan Todorov, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (132 pages, in French).
Todorov recovers the humanist strand of the Enlightenment and sets out its central ideas: autonomy, secularism, truth, humanity and universality. Faced with those who reduce it to a utopia, he shows how this project can continue to guide coexistence; to do so, he contrasts it with the catastrophes of the 19th and 20th centuries and with the challenges of the present.
The essay was originally published in 2006 and belongs to philosophy and the history of ideas.
For readers interested in political philosophy, the Enlightenment and contemporary thought.
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.
