Twelve: Tzvetan Todorov

“I think it is time for political leaders of Europe to understand that the future of Europe cannot be in the nation state, but only in a common solidarity and in the reinforcement of the common European space.”   Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov, a French-Bulgarian philosopher, was the second guest of the project Twelve. In the eighties he ran the Research centre for Art and Language and currently he is employed at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) which is the biggest public organization for scientific research in France. He is well known for his translations of Russian formalism and his research on the history of humanism which highlights the work of JJ Rousseau, Montesquieu, Montaigne, Benjamin Constant and Jacquesa Cazotte.