A Passion for Democracy

by Todorov, Tzvetan

• ISBN13: 9781892941015
• ISBN10: 1892941015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Algora Pub

Table of Contents

The Elusive Constant	5	(8)
A Multifaceted Work	13	(20)
Biography	15	(4)
Inventory	19	(4)
How Should Constant Be Read?	23	(10)
Liberal Democracy	33	(14)
Autonomy and Moderation	35	(6)
The Principle of Freedom	41	(6)
The ``Era of the Individual''	47	(14)
The Virtue of Freedom	49	(3)
A Critique of Modernity	52	(9)
Historicism or Essentialism	61	(14)
Inexorable History	63	(3)
The March Toward Equality	66	(4)
The Unity and the Liberty of Mankind	70	(5)
The Reign of Interest	75	(12)
Interest as a Motive	78	(4)
Time, and Other People	82	(5)
Political Commitment	87	(14)
A Centrist Position	89	(4)
Individuals and Principles	93	(4)
In Power, with the Opposition	97	(2)
Journalist and Deputy	99	(2)
The ``Misery of the Human Heart''	101	(16)
Egoistic Love	104	(4)
The Ideal of Fusion	108	(2)
The Logic of Desire	110	(7)
Loving	117	(18)
Anna and Juliette	120	(5)
A Wound that Can Never Be Healed	125	(6)
Friend and Father	131	(4)
``A Two-Sided and Enigmatic Being''	135	(16)
I, You, They	137	(5)
The Desire for Independence	142	(3)
``An Unknown Center''	145	(6)
The Anatomy of Human Exchanges	151	(12)
The ``Reciprocal Situation''	153	(4)
A Theory of Language	157	(6)
Religion and Morality	163	(16)
Morality, the Judge of Religion	166	(1)
The Religious Need	167	(4)
Faith, the Basis of Morality	171	(3)
Human Love, Divine Love	174	(5)
Compassion	179	(14)
Other People's Suffering	181	(6)
Dominated by Pain	187	(6)
Three Narratives	193	(22)
Impossible Love	195	(9)
Between Two Women	204	(5)
Laughter and Tears	209	(6)
Morality and Truth	215	(12)
To Love Truth -- or Your Neighbor	218	(4)
A Man of Dialogue	222	(5)
Chronology	227	(8)
Constant's Works	235	(6)
Selective Bibliography	241