The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas
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The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, [1997], c1990
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Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1990
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant. Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In the "Crooked Timber of Humanity", he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our present century: between the Platonic belief in absolute Truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant - and sometimes genocidal - nationalism that convulses the modern world.
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface The Pursuit of the Ideal The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West Giambattista Vico and Cultural History Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism European Unity and its Vicissitudes The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism Index
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