*** TZVETAN TODOROV: Les ennemis intimes de la démocratie. Robert Laffont / Versilio (24 av. Marceau, F-75381 Paris cedex 8. Tel: (33-1) 53671400. Internet: www.laffont.fr). 2012, 259 pp, €20-30. ISBN 978-2-221-12952-4.
Author and philosopher Tzvetan Todorov writes in this book that democracy is also characterised by the way power is exercised. The key word here is pluralism and the ideas inherent in the very idea of democracy arise from the isolation and favouring of just one of its...