The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy
1990, First Edition. London : John Murray. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #433926
ISBN: 071954789X
Physical description; xii, 276 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; Maistre, Joseph Marie comte de 1753-1821. Philosophy. History Philosophy. Civilization, Modern. Philosophy, English 20th century. Humanity. Philosophy, English.
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