This thinker critiqued the fanatical "ultra-materialist" view of the title time period as responsible for much of the horror of the 20th century in his book In Defence of the Enlightenment. He dedicated another book to the "memory of a Mayan woman devoured by dogs," whose body he describes as the site of double colonization in the book's final chapter, "Las Casas's Prophecy." That book, The Conquest of America, was followed by a work in which he challenged the idea that the gulags and concentrat
This thinker critiqued the fanatical "ultra-materialist" view of the title time period as responsible for much of the horror of the 20th century in his book In Defence of the Enlightenment. He dedicated another book to the "memory of a Mayan woman devoured by dogs," whose body he describes as the site of double colonization in the book's final chapter, "Las Casas's Prophecy." That book, The Conquest of America, was followed by a work in which he challenged the idea that the gulags and concentration camps of the 20th century were places where man's essential virtues broke down. Author of Facing the Extreme, for 10 points, name this writer, a Bulgarian structuralist who examined the idea of the "uncanny" in The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre.
This thinker critiqued the fanatical "ultra-materialist" view of the title time period as responsible for much of the horror of the 20th century in his book In Defence of the Enlightenment.
{Tzvetan Todorov}