{"product_id":"the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-chapters-in-the-history-of-ideas-second-edition-paperback","title":"The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIsaiah Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHenry Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.\"--Immanuel Kant \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Timber of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e 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-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century Fascism; between the romanticism of Schiller and Byron and the militant--and sometimes genocidal--nationalism that convulses the modern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his defense of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides rich context, including letters by Berlin and previously uncollected writings, most notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand Russell's \u003ci\u003eA History of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsaiah Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them \u003ci\u003eKarl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e, and, from Princeton, \u003ci\u003eConcepts and Categories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Impressions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Timber of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hedgehog and the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Roots of Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThree Critics of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eHenry Hardy\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.57 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978548740397,"sku":"9780691155937","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Qml4a0xsVDdmZjRwMm95NHI0djA0UT09.webp?v=1775805751","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-crooked-timber-of-humanity-chapters-in-the-history-of-ideas-second-edition-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}