Name: El Fuste Torcido de la Humanidad (in Spanish)
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Author: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9788499427447

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El Fuste Torcido de la Humanidad (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Isaiah Berlin

Publisher

Ediciones Península

Collection

IMPRESCINDIBLES

Year

2019

Language

Spanish

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23x15 cm

ISBN13

9788499427447

Edited in

España

Synopsis "El Fuste Torcido de la Humanidad (in Spanish)"

El fuste torcido de la humanidad explora las conexiones entre las ideas del pasado y los cambios radicales que se vivieron en Occidente en el siglo xx: por un lado, la fe en la verdad absoluta de Platón, la ideología reaccionaria de Joseph de Maistre y el romanticismo de Schiller y Byron; por el otro, los autoritarismos, el fascismo y el nacionalismo, que gana cada vez más adeptos alrededor del mundo. Esta nueva edición de los ensayos de Isaiah Berlin sintetiza las dimensiones histórica, conceptual, moral y autobiográfica del autor de El erizo y el zorro e incluye correspondencia y otros escritos inéditos. Se trata, sin duda, del mejor resumen del legado de Berlin, una aportación fundamental a los campos de la filosofía política y de la ética de uno de los principales pensadores políticos del siglo pasado. «Una historia de las ideas con el dramatismo de la novela y la inmediatez de los titulares de las noticias.» The New York Times

Isaiah Berlin

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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was an influential British philosopher and thinker of Latvian origin, known for his contributions to political theory and the history of ideas. Born in Riga, Latvia, his family emigrated to England in 1921. He studied at the University of Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls College and New College, and also founded Wolfson College. During World War II, he worked as a diplomat in Washington and Moscow. He was president of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978 and received various awards for his intellectual work.

His most famous essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), interprets Leon Tolstoy's view of history through an Archilochus metaphor: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Berlin classifies thinkers into two types: the "hedgehogs," who structure their worldview around a single central idea, and the "foxes," who have a more scattered and multiple perspective. According to Berlin, Tolstoy embodies both roles: by his talent, a fox; by his convictions, a hedgehog.

This essay has become an essential work for understanding the different approaches to thought and history.

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