The Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas /

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

The Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy - First American edition - New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991 - xi, 277 pages ; 23 cm

"Originally published in Great Britain ... in 1990"--Verso t.p

Includes bibliographical references and index

Pursuit of the ideal -- 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 -- Apotheosis of the romantic will : the revolt against the myth of an ideal world -- Bent twig : on the rise of nationalism

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Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern.

B29 / .B373 1991

ARCH YNDC 901 B515C