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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essay collection
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non-fiction book → |
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Isaiah Berlin
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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 → The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West → The Pursuit of the Ideal → |
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United Kingdom
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Giambattista Vico
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Immanuel Kant → Johann Gottfried Herder → Joseph de Maistre → |
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Henry Hardy
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intellectual history
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philosophy → political philosophy → |
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anti-utopianism
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complexity of political and moral life → liberalism → limits of human perfectibility → value pluralism → |
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Princeton Classics edition
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collection of previously published essays
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Enlightenment rationalism
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Romanticism → counter-Enlightenment thought → |
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history of ideas
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liberal political thought → moral philosophy → political ideologies → |
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contemporary liberal political theory
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Isaiah Berlin’s collected essays
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English
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conflict of genuine human values is often tragic and ineliminable
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political projects aiming at total harmony are dangerous → |
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liberal anti-perfectionism
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value pluralism → |
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1990
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Princeton University Press
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scholarly analysis in political theory
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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"
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Immanuel Kant quotation
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity
("Isaiah Berlin’s collected essays")
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Isaiah Berlin
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