Hope and Memory - Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Name: Hope and Memory - Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Price: 21.91 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691096582

ISBN-10: 0691096589

ISBN-13: 9780691096582

Edition: 2003

Authors: Tzvetan Todorov, David Bellos

List price: $55.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $21.91

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Both a political history and a moral critique of the twentieth century, this is a personal and impassioned book from one of Europe's most outstanding intellectuals. Identifying totalitarianism as the major innovation of the twentieth century, Tzvetan Todorov examines the struggle between this system and democracy and its effects on human life and consciousness. Totalitarianism managed to impose itself because, more than any other political system, it played on people's need for the absolute: it fed their hope to endow life with meaning by taking part in the construction of a paradise on earth. As a result, millions of people lost their lives in the name of a higher good. While democracy…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/19/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



List of Abbreviations and Acronyms


Preface to the English Edition


Prologue: the last hundred years



What Went Wrong in the Twentieth Century


Our Liberal Democracies


The Ideal Type of Totalitarianism


Scientism and Humanism


The Birth of Totalitarian Doctrine


War As the Truth of Life


The Two-Edged Knife


The Achievement of Vasily Grossman



Two of a Kind


Peas in a Pod


Apples and Oranges


The Reckoning


The Achievement of Margarete Buber-Neumann



Preserving the Past


The Control of Memory


The Three Stages


Testimony, History, and Commemoration


Moral Judgment


Master Narratives


The Achievement of David Rousset



The Uses of Memory


The Frying Pan and the Fire


Serving Purposes


What Memory Is For


The Achievement of Primo Levi



The Past in the Present


"Moral Correctness"


History and Myth


History and the Law


The Achievement of Romain Gary



The Perils of Democracy


The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombs


Kosovo: The Political Context


Military Intervention


Humanitarian Action and the Law


The Right to Interfere versus the Obligation to Aid


The Achievement of Germaine Tillion


epilogue: the next hundred years


Bibliography


Index