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. - 1st American ed. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991. - xi, 277 p. ; 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.
Filosofía.
Filosofía moderna.
Civilización moderna.
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