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""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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Other Authors: Hardy, Henry (Editor), Banville, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern.
Philosophie.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Banville, John
  • Editor's Preface
  • Note on References
  • The Pursuit of the Ideal
  • The 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
  • Appendix: Violence and Terror
  • European Unity and Its Vicissitudes
  • The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World
  • The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism
  • Appendix to the Second Edition
  • Index.

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