Berlin / Hardy The Crooked Timber of Humanity

Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4781-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlin, Isaiah

Hardy, Henry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Banville, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by John Banville xi

Editor's Preface xix

Note on References xxvi

The Pursuit of the Ideal 1

The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West 21

Giambattista Vico and Cultural History 51

Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought 73

Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism 95

Appendix: Violence and Terror 178

European Unity and Its Vicissitudes 186

The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World 219

The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism 253

Appendix to the Second Edition 279

Index 335

Über Autor(innen)

Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, and, from Princeton, Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, and Three Critics of the Enlightenment. Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.