Tzvetan Todorov

Biographic Data

ID91455
NAMETzvetan Todorov
GIVEN NAMESTzvetan
FAMILY NAMETodorov
SIGNATURETODOROV T
AFFILIATIONSÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS121
TOTAL CITATIONS251
AUTHOR COUNT121
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7

  • Los usos de la memoria en contextos de violencia política: Los casos de Cambodia y del Perú

    Open AccessTzvetan TodorovARTICLERevista del Instituto Riva-Agüero2024

    El ser humano se distingue de las otras especies animales por la conciencia que tiene de estar inscrito en el curso del tiempo. Él sabe que es mortal, que su vida tendrá un fin, y él sabe también que ella tuvo un comienzo que liga ese momento inicial al momento presente. Esta continuidad se presenta en su conciencia bajo la forma de una narración, reescrita a lo largo de toda su existencia. Las comunidades humanas no tienen una imagen clara de su…

  • Freud sobre a enunciação

    Open AccessTzvetan Todorov, Pricila Fátima De Souza et al.ARTICLEDiscurso2022

    Eu me proponho resumir aqui, para o uso daqueles que estudam a linguagem, algumas observações de Freud, dispersas em diversos escritos, e consagradas aos problemas da enunciação (termo do qual Freud não se serve)

  • Race and Racism

    Tzvetan TodorovCHAPTERTheories of Race and Racism2020

    Racialist doctrine, which will be the readers chief concern here, can be presented as coherent set of propositions. Racism is an ancient form of behavior that is probably found worldwide; racialism is a movement of ideas born in Western Europe whose period of flowering extends from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. Several common features indicate that racialism belongs to the spiritual family of scientism. Racialist theories are n…

  • La vie est une œuvre en soi

    Tzvetan Todorov, Héloïse Lhérété et al.ARTICLESciences Humaines2020

  • Dernier retour sur les formalistes

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLECommunications2018Cited by: 1

    Cet article revient sur les circonstances de la publication de Théorie de la littérature. Textes des formalistes russes , réunis, présentés et traduits par Tzvetan Todorov, avec une préface de Roman Jakobson, en 1966. Il rappelle ensuite les trois moments de lecture critique des formalistes par Todorov : en 1965 ; en 1982, dans Critique de la critique ; et enfin en 1997, dans une étude intitulée « Pourquoi Jakobson et Bakhtine ne se sont jamais r…

  • Two approaches to the humanities: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Germaine Tillion

    Open AccessTzvetan TodorovARTICLESign Systems Studies2017

    This article compares two different approaches to the humanities in general and to anthropology in particular, represented by two renowned French scholars, Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) and Germaine Tillion (1907–2008). While Lévi- Strauss emphasized the importance of an objective stance in the humanities and wanted to eliminate all subjectivity, Tillion desired to reserve an exclusive role for subjectivity, preferring human individuals to abst…

  • La Poétique d'Aristote dans la collection « Poétique

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLELittérature2016

    Tzvetan Todorov, éditeur et préfacier de La Poétique aux éditions du Seuil, revient sur les étapes de la publication de l'ouvrage par Roselyne Dupont-Roc et Jean Lallot. Il évoque notamment le séminaire de 1973-1974 à l'École normale supérieure, dont le principe était de faire travailler ensemble théoriciens de la littérature et philologues

  • Deux approches des sciences humaines: Lévi-Strauss et Germaine Tillion

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLELe Débat2016Cited by: 1

  • Insoumis: Essai

    Tzvetan TodorovBOOKInsoumis2015

  • The Fear of Barbarians: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

    Tzvetan Todorov, Andrew Brown et al.BOOKFear of Barbarians2010Cited by: 28

  • The Spirit of the Enlightenment

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLECritical Horizons2008References: 2

    We cannot "go back" to the Enlightenment today; its world is not ours. However, we should not reject it as revolutionaries and anti-humanists tried to during the last century. Rather, we need a rebirth of the Enlightenment to preserve its heritage at the same time subjecting it to a critical appraisal. The Enlightenment has taught us how to do this by lucidly and fearlessly contrasting it with its desirable and undesirable consequences. In critic…

  • Pluralité des cultures, unité de la civilisation

    Tzvetan Todorov, Revue Hommes Et MigrationsARTICLEHommes & migrations2008

    Todorov Tzvetan, Revue Hommes et Migrations. Pluralité des cultures, unité de la civilisation. In: Hommes et Migrations, hors-série novembre 2008. L'interculturalité en débat. pp. 9-19

  • Moving Targets: An Interview by Danny Postel

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLECritical Inquiry2008

  • Avant-gardes & totalitarianism

    Open AccessTzvetan TodorovARTICLEDaedalus2007Cited by: 2

  • What Is Literature For

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLENew Literary History2007

    This article begins with a critical analysis of the way literature is taught in French high schools today and attributes the shortcomings of this method to the predominant conception of literature as a self-sufficient object without any relevant relationship to the surrounding world. This conception is also widespread outside of school among critics and even writers. This is an unnecessarily restricted view; in fact literature helps us to better …

  • The Notion of Literature

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLENew Literary History2007Cited by: 1

    The Notion of Literature Tzvetan Todorov (bio) Before launching into the awesome question of the nature of literature, let us begin, as a precautionary measure, by examining not literature itself but rather the kind of discourse which, like this very study, takes literature as its object. The difference will be one of approach rather than of objective; but who can say whether the course of the inquiry is not of greater interest than its final res…

  • Germaine Tillion face à l'extrême Germaine Tillion facing the extreme

    Tzvetan TodorovBOOKGradhiva2007

    This article examines Germaine Tillion's confrontation with extreme situations, particularly during her imprisonment in Ravensbrück. Todorov analyzes Tillion's resilience and resistance, highlighting her intellectual approach to understanding and combating barbarity. He explores her ethnographic work within the camp, her clandestine opera, and her post-war writings, emphasizing her commitment to human dignity and her refusal to succumb to despair…

  • L'esprit des Lumières

    Tzvetan TodorovBOOKL' esprit des lumieres2006

  • Livres et vivre

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLELe Débat2005

  • Stalin close up

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLETotalitarian Movements &…2004

    Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949), the most prominent Bulgarian Communist leader and the chief of the Komintern between 1935 and 1941, left a private diary which has recently been published (in Bulgarian in 1997; in English in 2003). One contribution of this remarkably rich document is the portrait of Stalin it draws: Dimitrov met him frequently and transcribed faithfully his words. Among other features revealed by this portrait are the nationalistic t…

  • Staline vu de près

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLELe Débat2004

  • European Borders

    Open AccessTzvetan Todorov, Patrick Savidan et al.ARTICLESouth Central Review2003

  • The New World Disorder

    Open AccessTzvetan Todorov, Thomas C HildeARTICLESouth Central Review2002

    For Europeans of the 21st Century, the old world order of the last century rested on the rivalry between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. This was in turn founded on the opposition between two political and ideological systems, democracy and totalitarian communism. Since the fall of the Wall, as they say, and thus the end of this divide, a new order is perhaps being established in its place. The September 11th attacks on t…

  • Sous le regard des autres

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLESciences Humaines2002

  • La torture dans la guerre d'Algérie

    Tzvetan TodorovARTICLELe Débat2002