The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
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"There are, in my view, two factors that, above all others, have shaped human history in the twentieth century. One is the development of the natural sciences and technology, certainly the greatest success story of our time – to this, great and mounting attention has been paid from all quarters. The other, without doubt, consists in the great ideological storms that have altered the lives of virtually all mankind: the Russian Revolution and its aftermath – totalitarian tyrannies of both right and left and the explosions of nationalism, racism and, in places, religious bigotry which, interestingly enough, not one among the most perceptive social thinkers of the nineteenth century had ever predicted."--The Pursuit of the Ideal, first chapter |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (1959) by Isaiah Berlin.
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