TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berlin,Isaiah
AU  - Banville,John
AU  - Hardy,Henry
TI  - The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition 
SN  - 9780691155937
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Civilisation moderne et contemporaine
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Ideengeschichte
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Age of Enlightenment
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Bertrand Russell
KW  - Book
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Certainty
KW  - Chauvinism
KW  - Civilisation (TV series)
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Despotism
KW  - Division of labour
KW  - Dreyfus affair
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Falsity
KW  - Fanaticism
KW  - Form of life (philosophy)
KW  - Frederick the Great
KW  - Giambattista Vico
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Herder
KW  - His Family
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Humiliation
KW  - Humility
KW  - Hypothesis
KW  - Idealism
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Immanuel Kant
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intelligentsia
KW  - Isaiah Berlin
KW  - Jerusalem Prize
KW  - Jews
KW  - Joseph de Maistre
KW  - Karl Marx
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Morality
KW  - National consciousness
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Niccolò Machiavelli
KW  - Obedience (human behavior)
KW  - Obscurantism
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Occult
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Perennial philosophy
KW  - Pessimism
KW  - Phenomenon
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy of history
KW  - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
KW  - Platonism
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Politics
KW  - Populism
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Prima facie
KW  - Principle
KW  - Rationalism
KW  - Reactionary
KW  - Reality
KW  - Reason
KW  - Relativism
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Scientific method
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Separatism
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Stoicism
KW  - Stupidity
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Symptom
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thomas Hobbes
KW  - Thomism
KW  - Thought
KW  - Three Critics of the Enlightenment
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Trade-off
KW  - True History
KW  - Universal value
KW  - Utilitarianism
KW  - Utopia
KW  - Western thought
KW  - Writing
KW  - Xenophobia
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Editor’s Preface --; Note on References --; 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 --; Appendix: Violence and Terror --; 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 --; Appendix to the Second Edition --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "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 plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: 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. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his defense of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides rich context, including letters by Berlin and previously uncollected writings, most notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400847815
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400847815
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400847815/original
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