"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - Immanuel Kant. 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 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.
Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them "Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind," and from Princeton, "Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas," and "Three Critics of the Enlightenment".
Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.
PS:很久以前写的,在看《扭曲的人性之材》的时候写的,现在想把它放到空间里,和有兴趣的盆友一起讨论。 乌托邦:一个处于纯粹和谐状态的世界,那里所有的成员都和平相处,彼此相爱,免于皮肉之苦,远离任何欲望,也不用担心受怕,没有低贱的劳作,没有妒忌和失落,不会受到不...
评分《扭曲的人性之材》应该是我读过的所有伯林的书籍中比较不理想的一本,也许这么说吧,这一本的演讲稿和论文集收录的文章彼此之间没有一条贯穿其中的逻辑主线,相较《自由及其背叛》、《浪漫主义的根源》(这是我认为最好的一本伯林文集)和《反潮流》,其脉络都更为模糊疏松,...
评分001 他们更加深信的是(托尔斯泰正是如此):假如自由只是一种幻觉,它也是人类的生存和思考必不可少的一种幻觉。 002 伏尔泰认为,人类成就的山峰,而不是谷底,才是历史研究唯一有价值的对象。伯里克利时期的雅典、共和国晚期和元首制早期的罗马、文艺复兴时期的佛...
评分轻松阅读的后果是一直很开心。伯林真让人开心。 伯林大概是著名拖延症。我读过所有的他的书里,编者都在抱怨这本书拖了多少年,要发表的时候伯林又要改,一改又是多少年。他好像没有项目管理概念,笔记乱七八糟,把作业拿回去一扔就不看了,所以有个机智的编者在《自由及其敌人...
评分001 他们更加深信的是(托尔斯泰正是如此):假如自由只是一种幻觉,它也是人类的生存和思考必不可少的一种幻觉。 002 伏尔泰认为,人类成就的山峰,而不是谷底,才是历史研究唯一有价值的对象。伯里克利时期的雅典、共和国晚期和元首制早期的罗马、文艺复兴时期的佛...
好久没看大大大大学者写的书了,博学到匪夷所思啊,而且文笔还那么好,每次看到这种书就会唤醒小的时候对学者无限膜拜的感情,同时觉得我还是回家开个小卖部得了。
评分for cogent prose and connotation
评分The Pursuit of the Ideal
评分chapter1 & 6
评分卓越的洞察力,惊人的现实感,真的好久没读过这样激动人心的书了。沿着启蒙/反启蒙的线索勾勒出了乌托邦主义、浪漫主义、法西斯主义、民族主义的根基,讲Maistre的一章篇幅最长,尤其精彩,最后一章将民族主义和当代西方青年运动类比起来,也洞见极深。
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