The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of IdeasVintage Books, 1992 - 278 Seiten "Sir Isaiah Berlin may be our most important living philosopher, an activist of the intellect who marshals vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political pluralism. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the idea of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our present century: 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"--Unedited summary from book cover. |
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... Bonald , who fits the stereotyped image of the ultramontane theocrat at almost every point . Bonald was a man of clear mind and narrow vision , which became narrower and more intense in the course of his long life . An officer and a ...
... Bonald , who fits the stereotyped image of the ultramontane theocrat at almost every point . Bonald was a man of clear mind and narrow vision , which became narrower and more intense in the course of his long life . An officer and a ...
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... Bonald a mutinous denial of divine discipline , just as the search for knowledge outside the sacred groves of orthodox theology was merely a chaotic quest for violent sensations on the part of a corrupt and dissipated generation . Like ...
... Bonald a mutinous denial of divine discipline , just as the search for knowledge outside the sacred groves of orthodox theology was merely a chaotic quest for violent sensations on the part of a corrupt and dissipated generation . Like ...
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... Bonald's narrow legitimist horizon . For Maistre understood , as Bonald gave no sign of doing , that the old world was dying , and he perceived , as Bonald could never have done , the terrifying contours of the new order which was ...
... Bonald's narrow legitimist horizon . For Maistre understood , as Bonald gave no sign of doing , that the old world was dying , and he perceived , as Bonald could never have done , the terrifying contours of the new order which was ...
Inhalt
The Pursuit of the Ideal | 1 |
The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West | 20 |
Giambattista Vico and Cultural History | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1990 |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1991 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient authority believed Bonald Christian church civilisation common conception Condorcet conflict consciousness created creative CROOKED TIMBER culture divine doctrine eighteenth century ends Enlightenment equally eternal existence fact faith Fascism feeling Fichte forces France freedom French Friedrich Schlegel German Giambattista Vico goals happiness harmonious Hegel human ideal ideas ignorance imagination incompatible individual intellectual Isaiah Berlin Johann Gottfried Herder Joseph de Maistre kind knowledge language laws Léon Bloy liberal liberty live Maistre's mankind Marx Marxist methods modern Montesquieu moral movement natural sciences nineteenth century objective organisation outlook perfect perhaps philosophers Plato political principle progress questions rationalist realise reason recognised relativism resistance revolution romantic romanticism Rousseau rules Russian scientific seek seems sense social society spirit St Petersburg thinkers thought tradition true answers truth ultimate ultramontane understand universal Utopias values Vico and Herder Vico's violent virtues vision Voltaire