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

""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 marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered value...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Otros Autores: Hardy, Henry (Editor ), Banville, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:""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 marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense 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-
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxv, 351 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400847815
1400847818