Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Tzvetan Todorov
Born: March 1, 1939
Died: February 7, 2017 (aged 77)
Bio: Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, literary critic, sociologist and essayist.
Known for:
- Facing the Extreme (1996)
- The poetics of prose (1971)
- In Defence of the Enlightenment (2009)