The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas

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Sinopse

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah 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 pluralism. In the Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas 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.

Participantes

Autor: Isaiah Berlin

Organizador: Henry Hardy

Autor

ISAIAH BERLIN

Filósofo e histórico das ideias, sir Isaiah Berlin nasceu em Riga em 1909. Ainda criança mudou-se com a família para São Petersburgo, onde presenciou a Revolução Russa, sucessivamente mudou-se para Inglaterra. Estudou na Universidade de Oxford, onde tornou-se professor de Teoria Social e Política. Morreu em 1997 na mesma cidade de Oxford. Entre seu livros publicados no Brasil estão Vico e Herder (1979), Pensadores russos (1988) e A força das ideias (2005).