1997, ISBN: 0691058385

[EAN: 9780691058382], [PU: Princeton University Press], PHILOSOPHY HISTORY, Princeton. 1997. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691058385. Ed… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780691058382], [PU: Princeton University Press], PHILOSOPHY HISTORY, Princeton. 1997. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691058385. Edited by Henry Hardy. 276 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Joe Partridge. keywords: Philosophy History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Isaiah Berlin is renowned the world over for his analysis of the ideas that have influenced or transformed societies. Deeply committed to individual and collective liberty, and to moral and political pluralism, he has devoted the half-century and more of his professional life as a teacher and lecturer to exploring the conditions that allow these ideals to flourish, and those that threaten them. Now this new collection brings together the latest in a series of brilliant essays that address some of the urgent social and political questions facing our changing world. With matchless authority, Berlin writes on such immense issues as nationalism, European unity, fascism, relativism, and cultural history. The range of essays collected here is wide, though they are all concerned with varieties of antirationalism. Five of these essays have never been published in a book, including the longest, an extensive study of the late-eighteenth-century thinker Joseph de Maistre and his connection to the origins of fascism. The essays are bound together by a firm rejection of tidy answers to the great social and political problems: as Kant once wrote, ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.' inventory #46275, Books<

1997, ISBN: 9780691058382

Princeton. 1997. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691058385. Edited by Henry Hardy. 276 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Joe Partridge… Mehr…

Princeton. 1997. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691058385. Edited by Henry Hardy. 276 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Joe Partridge. keywords: Philosophy History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Isaiah Berlin is renowned the world over for his analysis of the ideas that have influenced or transformed societies. Deeply committed to individual and collective liberty, and to moral and political pluralism, he has devoted the half-century and more of his professional life as a teacher and lecturer to exploring the conditions that allow these ideals to flourish, and those that threaten them. Now this new collection brings together the latest in a series of brilliant essays that address some of the urgent social and political questions facing our changing world. With matchless authority, Berlin writes on such immense issues as nationalism, European unity, fascism, relativism, and cultural history. The range of essays collected here is wide, though they are all concerned with varieties of antirationalism. Five of these essays have never been published in a book, including the longest, an extensive study of the late-eighteenth-century thinker Joseph de Maistre and his connection to the origins of fascism. The essays are bound together by a firm rejection of tidy answers to the great social and political problems: as Kant once wrote, ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.' inventory #46275 ISBN: 0691058385., 0<

ISBN: 9780691058382

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".--Immanuel Kant. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin explores the complex, radical changes that have swept Western society a… Mehr…

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".--Immanuel Kant. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin explores the complex, radical changes that have swept Western society as he proves to be "an activist of the intellect". "A beautifully patterned tapestry of philosophical thought. . . . A history of ideas that possesses all the drama of a novel, all the immediacy of headline news".--"The New York Times". Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<