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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 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-

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  • "Crooked timber of humanity"@it

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  • "Mit dem Titel dieses Buches spielt Isaiah Berlin auf ein berühmtes Diktum Immanuel Kants an: "Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden." Dieser Satz enthält ein Programm, das für die Werke Berlins von Anfang an charakteristisch war: Unabhängigkeit des Denkens und das Plädoyer für Humanität gerade aus dem Wissen um ihre stete Gefährdung. Das krumme Holz der Humanität belegt diese Haltung auf eindrückliche Weise. In acht ideengeschichtlichen Studien diskutiert Isaiah Berlin zentrale Konzepte der Philosophie und Politik, die in den letzten 200 Jahren einen radikalen Bedeutungs- und Bewertungswandel erfahren haben: Pluralismus und Relativismus, Nationalismus und Faschismus, europäische Einheit und Utopie. Berlin beschwört nicht die Kultur Europas, er verkörpert sie - er schreibt und argumentiert aus ihrem Geiste, in genauer Kenntnis ihrer Leistungen und ihrer Widersprüche."
  • """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-"@en
  • "Argues that the "great goods" of human aspiration - liberty, justice, equality - are not coherent and never can be. Sir Isaiah Berlin is a historian of ideas."

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  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "History"@en

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  • "The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of human ideas"
  • "Das Krumme Holz der Humanitat : Kapitel der Ideengeschichte"
  • "The Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas"
  • "El fuste torcido de la humanidad : capt̕ulos de historia de las ideas"@es
  • "Le bois tordu de l'humanité : romanticisme, nationalisme et totalitarisme"
  • "Arbol que crece torcido : capítulos de historia de las ideas"@es
  • "The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas"@hu
  • "The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas"
  • "The crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas"@en
  • "Il legno storto dell'umanità : capitoli della storia delle idee"@it
  • "Il legno storto dell'umanità : capitoli della storia delle idee"
  • "El fuste torcido de la humanidad : capítulos de historia de las ideas"
  • "El fuste torcido de la humanidad : capítulos de historia de las ideas"@es
  • "The crooked timber of humanity"
  • "The Crooked timber of humanity : Chapters in the history of ideas"@en
  • "The Crooked timber of humanity : Chapters in the history of ideas"
  • "Das krumme Holz der Humanität : Kapitel der Ideengeschichte"
  • "Il legno storto dell'umanita : capitoli della storia delle idee"@it
  • "Le bois tordu de l'humanité : romantisme, nationalisme et totalitarisme"
  • "Il Legno storto dell'umanità : capitoli della storia delle idee"
  • "Le bois tordu de l'humanite : romantisme, nationalisme et totalitarisme"
  • "Aŕbol que crece torcido : capítulos de historia de las ideas"@en
  • "Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas"@en
  • "ha-Enoshut, bul ʻets ʻiḳesh : peraḳim ba-hisṭoryah shel ha-raʻyonot"
  • "El Fuste torcido de la humanidad : capítulos de historia de las ideas"
  • "The crooked timber of humanity chapters in the history of ideas"
  • "The crooked timber of humanity chapters in the history of ideas"@en
  • "The Crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of the ideas"
  • "Das Krumme holz der humanität kapitel der ideengeschichte"
  • "The crooked timber of humanity : Chapters in the history ofIdeas"

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