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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 : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xi, 277 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0679401318
  • 9780679401315
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Crooked timber of humanity.DDC classification:
  • 190
LOC classification:
  • B 1618 B515c 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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) B 1618 B515c 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000085529

"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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