The Morals of HistoryU of Minnesota Press, 1995 - 228 pages The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring such issues as how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts topics ranging from the conquest of America and nineteenth-century colonialism, to democracy and conflicts of the Self versus the Other. |
Contents
1 Bulgaria in France | 3 |
3 The Conquest as Seen by the Aztecs | 17 |
The Conquest as Seen by the French | 34 |
5 The Wrong Causes for the Wrong Reasons | 47 |
The Journey and Its Narratives | 60 |
Fictions and Truths | 87 |
The Truth of Interpretations | 119 |
Manipulation and Eloquence | 126 |
11Toleration and the Intolerable | 141 |
Freedom in Letters | 158 |
Democracy and Theocracy | 171 |
The Debate on Values | 197 |
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