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When he was six, his family moved to Russia; therein 1917, in Petrograd, he witnessed both Revolutions – Social Democratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 his family came to England, and he was educated at St Paul’s School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.  \nAt Oxford he was a Fellow of All Souls, a Fellow of New College, Professor of Social and Political Theory, and founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. In addition to The Crooked Timber of Humanity, his main published works are Karl Marx, Russian Thinkers, Concepts and Categories, Against the Current, Personal Impressions, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and Its Betrayal, Liberty, The Soviet Mind and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. As an exponent of the history of ideas he was awarded the Erasmus, Lippincott and Agnelli Prizes; he also received the Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defence of civil liberties. He died in 1997.  \nHenry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin’s Literary Trustees. He has edited (or co-edited) many other books by Berlin, including the first three volumes of his letters, and is currently working on the remaining volume.  \nJohn Banville’s novels include The Book of Evidence and The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and, most recently, The Infinities. He is a longstanding enthusiast for Berlin’s writing, and has reviewed many of his books for the Irish Times.  \nForfurther information about Isaiah Berlin visit ‹[http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/](http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/)›  \nAlso by Isaiah Berlin  \n*  \nKarl Marx The Hedgehog and the Fox The Age of Enlightenment Russian Thinkers Concepts and Categories Personal Impressions Against the Current The Sense of Reality The Proper Study of Mankind The Roots of Romanticism The Power of Ideas Three Critics of the Enlightenment Freedom and Its Betrayal Liberty The Soviet Mind  \nPolitical Ideas in the Romantic Age Unfinished Dialogue  \nwith Beata Polanowska-Sygulska Unfinished Dialogue  \n*  \nFlourishing: Letters 1928–1946  \nEnlightening: Letters 1946–1960 Building: Letters 1960–1975  \nTHE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY  \nCHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS  \n•  \nIsaiah Berlin  \nEdited by Henry Hardy  \nSecond Edition  \nForeword by John Banville  \nP r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y P r e s s  \nP r i n c e t o n a n d O x f o r d  \nPublished in the United States of America, its Colonies and Dependencies, the Philippine Islands, and Canada by Princeton  \nUniversity Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press [press.princeton.edu](press.princeton.edu)  \nFirst published by John Murray 1990  \nFirst published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf 1991  \nSecond edition published by Princeton University Press 2013  \nCopyright Isaiah Berlin 1947  \n© Isaiah Berlin 1959, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004, 2013  \nSelection and editorial matter © Henry Hardy 1990, 2003, 2011, 2013 Foreword © John Banville 2013  \nThe moral right of Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy to be identified as the author and editor respectively of this work has been asserted  \nAll Rights Reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997.  \nThe crooked timber of humanity : chapters in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by John Banville.– Second edition.  \npages cm  \nIncludes index.  \nISBN 978-0-691-15593-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy.  \n2. Civilization, Modern. I. Title.  \nB29.B4465 2013  \n190–dc23  \n2012035271 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Garamond Premier Pro Printed on acid-free paper ∞  \n","cbCaigZH2w8AsMpA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigZH2w8AsMpA","pdf",20027707,379,"English","# Contents\n## Foreword by John Banville\n## Editor’s Preface\n## Note on References\n## The Pursuit of the Ideal\n## The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West\n## Giambattista Vico and Cultural History\n## Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought\n## Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism\n## Appendix: Violence and Terror\n## European Unity and Its Vicissitudes\n## The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World\n## The Bent Twig: On the Rise of Nationalism\n## Appendix to the Second Edition\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"Who are the key contributors mentioned in the book’s front matter?\",\"answer\":\"Henry Hardy serves as editor, and John Banville provides the foreword. 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