The Totalitarian Experience
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- Author: Tzvetan Todorov
- Year: 21-05-2015
- Translator from French: Zornitsa Pavlova
- Availability: In Stock
- Product Code: 1533-01
- SKU: 19.0060
- ISBN: 978-619-152-637-6
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Description
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as many other communist totalitarian regimes around the world. But it would be naive to assume that this historic, symbolic event and its aftermath have completely rid the world of totalitarianism. Instead, we should ask, what is the totalitarian experience and how does it survive today?
This is the imposing question raised by acclaimed philosopher and writer Tzvetan Todorov in this compact, highly personal essay. Here, he recounts his own experiences with totalitarianism in his native Bulgaria and discusses the books he has written in the last twenty years that were devoted to examining such regimes, such as Voices from the Gulag, his influential analysis of Stalinist concentration camps. Through this retrospective investigation, Todorov offers a historical look at communism. He brings together and distills his extensive oeuvre to reveal the essence of totalitarian ideology, the characteristics of daily life under communism, and the irony of democratic messianism.
Bringing his thoughts and insights up to the present, Todorov explores how economic ultraliberalism may be considered just another form of totalitarianism. And his conclusion leads us to ask ourselves another challenging question: Are liberal democratic societies actually totalitarian experiences in disguise?
About the Author
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (March 1, 1939 – February 7, 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist and geologist. He was the author of many books... Read more
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Tags: Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Researches, Philosophy of History, Culturology, Essays, Sociology, Tzvetan Todorov
| Specification | |
| Year | 21-05-2015 |
| Translator | from French: Zornitsa Pavlova |
| Pages | 320 |
| Size | 140/215 мм |
| Weight | 0.45 kg |
| Cover Type | Paperback |
| Genre | Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophical Researches, Philosophy of History, Culturology, Essays, Sociology, Tzvetan Todorov |
