The crooked timber of humanity chapters in the history of ideas - Berlin, Isaiah 1909-1997 (Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1991)
Contents: Pursuit of the ideal -- Decline of utopian ideas in the West -- Giambattista Vico and cultural history -- Alleged relativism in eighteenth-century European thought -- Joseph de Maistre and the origins of Fascism -- European unity and its vicissitudes -- Apotheosis of the romantic will : the revolt against the myth of an ideal world -- Bent twig : on the rise of nationalism. - Originally published: London : Murray, 1990. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Maistre, Joseph Marie de -- 1753-1821; Ideengeschichte; Civilisation moderne et contemporaine; Philosophie; Civilization, Modern; Philosophy; Humanismus; Aufsatzsammlung