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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Other Authors: Hardy, Henry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Knopf, 1991.
Edition:First American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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.