Käytetty hyväkuntoinen kirja.

The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought-provoking study of the complex relationship between "ethics" and "history." In exploring such issues as how one measures and experiences freedom in the depths of society and how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and nineteenth-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the Self versus the Other.As he probes the effects of intercultural relationships and the difficulties inherent in the representation of the Other, Todorov describes his own experience as a Bulgarian living in France. He also studies a variety of travel narratives from those of Columbus to Amerigo Vespucci to Lamartine, and he analyzes with great clarity the writings of the "ideologues" of both colonialism and anticolonialism.Offering an urgent call to contemporary intellectuals to reexamine their role in society and to integrate values into their work, The Morals of History explores the relationship between facts and values, truth and fiction, interpretation and articulation. Addressed to a broad audience, the book will intrigue readers interested in contemporary discussions about the outcome of democracy and the future of late capitalism, the persistence of a logic of conquest and ethnocentrism, and the signs that point to emerging fascisms.Tzvetan Todorov is Maître de Recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has been a visiting professor at various North American universities. He is the author of numerous books, including On Human Diversity (1993), Introduction to Poetics (1981), and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (1984).