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In Defence of the Enlightenment

Paperback • 2010 • English

In Defence of the Enlightenment

By Tzvetan Todorov

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Tzvetan Todorov argues that"although our liberal democracies are the offspring of the Enlightenment, they also illustrate the ways in which its ideas have been distorted and perverted. People living in contemporary democracies are often baffled by phenomena which resist easy judgement: globalisation and media omnipotence; disinformation and state-sponsored torture; moralism and the right of intervention; the dominance of economics and the triumph of technology. In this book, Todorov shows that w...Show more

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9781843548140

Publisher

Atlantic

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

In Defence of the Enlightenment

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Paperback

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