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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: 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: Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de: optimistic view of world, , , , , , , , ; on human and animal societies, , ; rejects doctrine of immortality of soul, ; Maistre criticises, , 161n, 168n; and universal language, –; explains away, ; view of nature, ; Russell's affinity to, , ; Russell on,
  Enlightenment, French: Voltaire on, & n, ; idealises scientific knowledge, –, , ; and values, ; and perfect solutions, , ; and oneness, ; opposes obscurantism, ; Vico and Herder oppose, ; varied beliefs, –; German attack on, , ; and knowledge, ; on nature as divine harmony, ; Russell on,
  Fascism: Maistre prefigures, , , , , , ; and Maistre's catalogue of enemy ('la secte'), ; and inferior classes, –, ; rise of, , , ; and romanticism,
  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: influence of Machiavelli on, ; and romanticism, , , , ; on self and will, , –, ; character, ; and individual vision, –; on artistic creation, –; and dignity of labour, ; on exceptional man, ; and hero, –; and German nationalism, ; and Herder,
  French Revolution: violence (Terror), , , , ; effect of, , ; Maistre and, –, , , , ; analysis and understanding of, –; Burke denounces, , –; effect on Fichte,
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conversations.value: Marx, Karl Heinrich: on historical change, , , , , , –; on unity of theory and practice, ; and self, ; praises Vico, ; on human making of history, ; and relativism, , ; and class, ; on fact and truth, ; style, ; use of argument, ; personal salvation, 188n; sociology, ; and advancement, 191n; neo-rationalism, ; progress by suppression of adversaries, ; materialism, ; and capitalist enterprise, ; and nationalism, , , 269n; Machiavelli and, ; Russell on, –; disbelieves in innate knowledge, ; on British in India,
  Marxism: predicts new solutions, ; and natural man, –; optimism, ; and historical causes, ; and economic determinism, –; and class interests, , , ; and nationalism, , , & n; on rise of Fascism, ; and technological approach, ; and protest,
  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: character, ; on Bonald, ; and Savoy, ; and human will, ; Maistre's attitude to, – & n, , ; power, ; art of making States, ; German resistance to,
  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: on simple life and noble savage, , , , , ; influenced by Machiavelli, ; on self, , ; view on progress, ; influence, ; suspects arts and sciences, ; on nature, –, , , ; on human freedom, , , ; on origins of language, ; and law, ; Maistre on, ; contrasted with Maistre and Voltaire, –; eloquence, ; and individual values, ; and reason, ; and human independence, ; and romantic movement, ; ideals, , ; advice to Poles, ; Enlightenment opposition to,
  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,