20th century · 1939–2017
Who influenced Tzvetan Todorov?
Influences and legacy
Structural poetics of the fantastic, later a critic of totalitarian memory.
Tzvetan Todorov was influenced by Roman Jakobson, and went on to influence Gérard Genette. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Tzvetan Todorov?
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic and essayist. His many books and essays influenced anthropology, sociology, semiotics, literary theory and the history of ideas.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Tzvetan Todorov?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Roman Jakobson 1896–1982
Who did Tzvetan Todorov influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Tzvetan Todorov.
- Gérard Genette 1930–2018
The line of teachers behind Tzvetan Todorov
The longest documented line of influence ending at Tzvetan Todorov runs 2 generations back, to Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Roman Jakobson
- Tzvetan Todorov
Two steps away from Tzvetan Todorov
Indirect influences
- Through Roman Jakobson: Ferdinand de Saussure
Contemporaries of Tzvetan Todorov
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Tzvetan Todorov, with no direct line between them.
- Robert Nozick 1938–2002
- Saul Kripke 1940–2022
- David Lewis 1941–2001
- Derek Parfit 1942–2017
- Edward Said 1935–2003
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016
- John Searle 1932–2025
- Richard Rorty 1931–2007
Tzvetan Todorov by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 2
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 39 — #60 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Tzvetan Todorov
- Who influenced Tzvetan Todorov?
- Roman Jakobson.
- Who did Tzvetan Todorov influence?
- Gérard Genette.
- When did Tzvetan Todorov live?
- 1939–2017. The map files Tzvetan Todorov under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Tzvetan Todorov card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Tzvetan Todorov in 39 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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