Summary
Cvetan Todorov: Fear of Barbarians
On the other side of the collision of civilizations
"A barbarian is not at all one who believes that barbarism exists, a barbarian is one who believes that some population or some being does not belong fully to the human race and that they deserve the treatment that he would resolutely refuse to be applied to him... No culture is inherently barbaric, no nation is ultimately civilized; everyone can become one or the other. This is the property of human beings species."
Cvetan Todorov
The book Fear of Barbarians is one of his last works. It is devoted to the social and cultural misunderstandings that, perhaps like never before, are causing global political instability. Todorov's arguments in this book are convincing, and his insights are extremely insightful and, above all, well-intentioned.
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