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"Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the indivi… - Tzvetan Todorov
"Every human being needs a set of norms and rules, traditions and customs, transmitted from the older to the younger; without those norms, the individual would never achieve the fullness of his humanity, but would be reduced to the condition of the 'Wild Child", condemned to anomie, in other words to the absence of all law and all order- an absence that can create severe disturbances.
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Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
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compte, que de l’extérieur : n’est respectable que la dignité qui sert le bien. Bettelheim se souvient de ces conflits entre détenus : « Lorsqu’il s’agissait de construire des bâtiments pour la Gestapo, ils discutaient pour décider s’ils devaient le faire bien. Les nouveaux venus étaient partisans du sabotage, la majorité des anciens, pour l’ouvrage bien fait » (Cœur, 270). Si le mur entoure un camp, il n’est pas bon. Un mur mal construit, dans un esprit de résistance, eût été préférable.
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