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The Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991Edition: First American editionDescription: xi, 277 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0679401318 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 901 B515C
LOC classification:
  • B29 .B373 1991
Contents:
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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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 901 B515C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 066524

"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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