Tzvetan Todorov, unlike many other authors more famous than himself, was neither a presumptuous nor a charlatan. He was a soft intransigent, a lucid intellectual (unfortunately, the expression is not a pleonasm), a humble scholar, an encyclopedic researcher and pedagogue (a 'smuggler', he said), a humanist without illusions and a citizen of the world, moderate and demanding. That is why it is so important to read it: it makes us smarter, more humble and more critical, more aware of the complexity of the world and of our tragic condition. André Comte-Sponville The work of historian and thinker Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) has been published and praised worldwide. This collection of articles, on whose composition the author worked until his last days, testifies to the variety of his centers of interest and the immensity of his culture: whether on national identity or Europe, on the 'just...read more
