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 He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.
"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.
"Out of cross-grained/crooked timber of human nature nothing quite straight can be made." “理想的追求” 在某一刻,我意识到,所有这些观念的共同之处是一个柏拉图式的理念:首先,像在科学中一样,所有真正的问题都应该有且只有一个真正的答案,而其他的答案都必然是...
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...
评分前言 又一本伯林的书。太喜欢这个作者了,遇见真是缘分……脑袋中许多模糊暧昧的想法,跟着他的思路都理清了。感觉又掌控了自己的脑壳(・・;) 不过在想是不是应该少看些这种暂时没卵用的思想史观念史啊? 观念和思想太强烈反而写不出好故事。一些东西被解构了,生活和历史...
评分摘自《法制日报》 作者:李海默 肖澜 康德说:“人性这根曲木,绝然造不出任何笔直的东西”……历史与现实共有的那一巨大的吊诡阴影:由于人性的曲木性质, 我们不能依照一个标准范式的蓝图来塑造人类社会,哪怕蓝图宣称已调和了各种的善的多元性,并因而具有能够改造...
评分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
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评分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chapter1 & 6
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