Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyPrinceton University Press, 2003 - 337 pagini 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 eventually won the struggle against totalitarianism in much of the world, democracy itself is not immune to the pitfall of do-goodery: moral correctness at home and atomic or "humanitarian" bombs abroad. Todorov explores the history of the past century not only by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts but also by offering moving profiles of several individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. Some--Margarete Buber-Neumann, David Rousset, Primo Levi, and Germaine Tillion--were deported to concentration camps. Others--Vasily Grossman and Romain Gary--fought courageously in World War II. All became exemplary witnesses who described with great lucidity and humanity what they had endured. This book preserves the memory of the past as we move into the twenty-first century--arguing eloquently that we must place the past at the service of a just future. |
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... Present 187 " Moral Correctness ' 187 History and Myth 197 History and the Law 205 The Achievement of Romain Gary 213 CHAPTER 6 The Perils of Democracy The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombs 228 228 Kosovo : The Political Context 237 Military ...
... present ? Two years after finishing the book , I would like to take the oppor- tunity afforded by its publication in English to explore some of the possible answers to these questions . Within the limits of this preface , I can ...
... present in the process known as globalization . Al- though the term is not inappropriate - contacts between the dif- ferent parts of the globe have unquestionably become more nu- merous in recent years - it does not bring out the most ...
... present . The acts of aggression committed on 11 September have prompted two equally legitimate political reactions - compassion for the victims and anger against those who ordered the attack . The U.S. government justifiably wished to ...
... present terrorists . In the early 1940s some Zionist groups in Palestine were considered to be terrorists by the British government ( which then held a mandate over the territory ) ; but after the creation of the state of Israel , they ...
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