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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled The Crooked Timber of Humanity about I>The, Crooked, Timber with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Humanities.
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conversations.value: <I>The Crooked Timber of Humanity</I> contains eight of the author's deservedly influential essays in the history of ideas, all dealing with political thought in the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the essays, &quot;Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism,&quot; is published here for the first time; this reevaluation of the Savoyard counterrevolutionary occupies almost a quarter of the book, and not a word is wasted.
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The Crooked Timber of Humanity
  Berlin, Isaiah: speech, xi; life and career, xii–xiii; despatches from wartime Washington, xiii–xiv; political and social philosophy, xv
  Bible, Holy: on paradise, –; on sin of disobedience, ; Herder on, ; Voltaire's antipathy to, ; Maistre on, ; emotion in, ; prophecy,
  Britain (and England): cultural flowering, ; Maistre on, –, ; constitution, , 465; novels, ; rule in India,
  Burke, Edmund: and relativism, ; indicts Warren Hastings, ; denounces French Revolution, , –; and nature of man, ; on nature, , ; on constitutions, ; influence on Maistre, , –, , ; on the lasting and the transient, ; conservatism, ; on human relationships, ; ideals, , , ; Russell ignores,
  Christianity: virtues, ; and Utopias, , –; and conflict of ideals, –, –; as reaction, ; and oneness, ; view of man, ; Maistre on, ; and individualism,
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conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Greece and Greeks (ancient): achievements, –; values, ; and Utopias, –; learning rediscovered, ; and universal truth, ; anti-rationalism in, ; Renaissance interest in, ; emotion in,
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conversations.value: Give me the last paragraph.
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conversations.value: Utopias: value of, , ; characteristics, –; classical, –; medieval, ; and remaking of whole, –, –; spoilt by catastrophe, –; three assumptions, –; and unattainable perfection, ; Christian, –; Renaissance, –; and natural man, ; and cultural differences, , –; and conflict of wills, , ; black, , ; and final solution, ; and true ends,