The Inner Enemies of Democracy

One of the great intellectuals of our time.
Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University
 
This is a voice to be listened to attentively, for our shared planetary home's and all its residents' sake.
Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds
 
Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity.
The New York Review of Books
 
A coherent, relevant work in which intelligence and sincere humanism do battle ? a world away from the slippery moralizing of intellectual fence-sitters.
Le Nouvel Observateur
 
Todorov's work is that of a sage, a man who has read the great texts, who has lived through two political regimes, and who dares to express an idea that may seem at odds with his fervent defence of freedom and democracy: freedom for its own sake, freedom that forgets its duties and responsibilities, is self-destructive. What he writes is never ordinary, but always tolerant and life affirming.
L'Echo