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The Crooked Timber Of Humanity (Paperback)
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The Crooked Timber Of Humanity (Paperback)
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'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 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.
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