Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyBoth 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. |
Contents
THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS | 1 |
CHAPTER | 4 |
The Achievement of Vasily Grossman | 48 |
CHAPTER 2 | 72 |
The Achievement of Margarete BuberNeumann | 93 |
5 | 99 |
32 | 110 |
Moral Judgment | 134 |
The Achievement of David Rousset | 148 |
The Uses of Memory | 159 |
The Achievement of Primo Levi | 177 |
The Achievement of Romain Gary | 213 |
CHAPTER 6 | 228 |
The Achievement of Germaine Tillion | 291 |
THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS | 311 |
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