The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Crooked Timber of Humanity canonical | 5 |
| The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas | 2 |
| Isaiah Berlin’s collected essays | 1 |
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essay collection
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Isaiah Berlin ⓘ |
| containsEssay |
Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
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European Unity and Its Vicissitudes ⓘ Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism ⓘ The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will ⓘ The Crooked Timber of Humanity self-link ⓘ The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West ⓘ The Pursuit of the Ideal ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discussesThinker |
Giambattista Vico
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Immanuel Kant ⓘ Johann Gottfried Herder ⓘ Joseph de Maistre ⓘ |
| editor | Henry Hardy ⓘ |
| genre |
intellectual history
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philosophy ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasCentralTheme |
anti-utopianism
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complexity of political and moral life ⓘ liberalism ⓘ limits of human perfectibility ⓘ value pluralism ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Princeton Classics edition ⓘ |
| hasForm | collection of previously published essays ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn |
Enlightenment rationalism
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Romanticism ⓘ counter-Enlightenment thought ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
history of ideas
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liberal political thought ⓘ moral philosophy ⓘ political ideologies ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary liberal political theory ⓘ |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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Isaiah Berlin’s collected essays
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| language | English ⓘ |
| mainIdea |
conflict of genuine human values is often tragic and ineliminable
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political projects aiming at total harmony are dangerous ⓘ |
| philosophicalPositionExpressed |
liberal anti-perfectionism
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value pluralism ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| publisher | Princeton University Press ⓘ |
| subjectOf | scholarly analysis in political theory ⓘ |
| titleAlludesTo | "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | Immanuel Kant quotation ⓘ |
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Isaiah Berlin’s collected essays
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Princeton Classics edition of The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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Princeton Classics edition of The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
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Princeton Classics edition of The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas