{"product_id":"9781400847815","title":"The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.\"--Immanuel Kant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Isaiah 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 plurality. In \u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Timber of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, a new foreword in which award-winning novelist John Banville discusses Berlin's life and ideas, particularly his defense of pluralism, and a substantial new appendix that provides rich context, including letters by Berlin and previously uncollected writings, most notably his virtuoso review of Bertrand Russell's \u003ci\u003eA History of Western Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137865269488,"sku":"9781400847815","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400847815_p0.jpg?v=1763713317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400847815","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}