Studies the moral practices in concentration camps, uncovering the virtues that persevered throughout inhuman living conditions.

"--Times Literary Supplement The 'Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language' is a wide-ranging and thorough study of language and its functions.

"Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action.

Addressing the fundamental questions about the new world disorder exemplified by the war on terrorism, war in Iraq and its aftermath, this book offers a profound and insightful critique of the new global strategy of the United States.

Clearly argued and written with vivacity and force, this book makes an exciting addition to the roster of important works of continental criticism now available in English.

In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims of cultural difference.

The untold and uplifting story of a whole nation of Oskar Schindlers.

Tzvetan Todorov nähert sich dem Symbol nicht theoretisch, sondern historisch: er gibt einen Überblick über die Deutungen, die dieser Begriff bei so verschiedenen Autoren wie Aristoteles, Cicero, Quintilian, Augustin, Lessing, Diderot, ...

Originally published in French under the title Critique de la critique. This is a paperbound reprint of the 1987 translated edition, which includes an appendix written in response to American reactions to the French edition.