Life in Common: An Essay in General Anthropology

by Tzvetan Todorov

Book Overview

In Life in Common Tzvetan Todorov explores the construction of the self and offers new perspectives on current debates about otherness. Through the seventeenth century, solitude was considered the human condition in the Western philosophical tradition. The self was not dependent on others to perceive itself as complete. Todorov sees a reversal of this thinking beginning with the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the eighteenth century. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803294441
• ISBN13: 9780803294448
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"