The Crooked Timber of Humanity Chapters in the History of Ideas

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence 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, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his defence of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides rich context, including letters and previously uncollected writings by Berlin, notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Isaiah Berlin
• Editore: Pimlico
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 04.07.2013
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9781845952082
• ISBN: 978-1-84595-208-2
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 23.5 x 3 cm
• Categorie: Politics, History of Ideas, Society, PHILOSOPHY / General, Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Benjamin Franklin, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, David Foster Wallace, Yuval Harari, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Teju Cole, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Hardy, Social Work, Historiography, Ned Kelly, Biography and non-fiction prose, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, simon armitage, Mary Magdalene, doing rebellious research, the examined life, frontiers of knowledge, the communist manifesto, guns germs and steel, liberty and truth, thousand years, the denial of death, non non-fiction, the advocate's labyrinth