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Bib.199

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 1990: John Murray; New York, 1991: Knopf; London, 1991: Fontana Press; New York, 1992: Vintage Books; Princeton, 1998: Princeton University Press; London, 2003: Pimlico)

  • reprints of Bib. 73, 128, 159, 170, 181, 196, together with 200 and the original English version of 143
  • trans. Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish

2nd ed., foreword by John Banville (Princeton, 2013: Princeton University Press)

  • adds an appendix containing reprints of Bib. 28, 184, 204, 258a, and letters (279) on Maistre and on nationalism
Bibliography
T.199

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Arabic

(London and Beirut, 1992: Dar Al Saqi)

Chinese

(Nanjing, 2009: Yilin Press: simplified script): one of the best 100 books of 2009, according to China Book Business Report

Dutch

Het Kromme Hout Waaruit de mens gemaaktis (Kampen, 1994: Kok Agora) (Amsterdam, 1991: Bert Bakker)

French

Le Bois tordu de l’humanité (Paris, 1992: Albin Michel)

German

Das krumme Holz der Humanität (Frankfurt, 1992: Fischer)

Greek

To streblo uliko tes anthropotetas: dokimia istorias ton ideon, trans. Giorgos Mertikas (Athens,2004: Kritike)

Hebrew

(Tel Aviv, 1994: Am Oved)

Hungarian

Az emberiség göcsörtös fája, trans. Mária Pap (Budapest, 1996: EurópaKönyvkiadó)

Italian

Il legno storto dell’ umanità (Milan, 1994: Adelphi)

Japanese

Risou no tsuikyu [as JSW4], trans. K. Fukuda, H.Kawak, H. Tanaka, and R. Matsumoto (Tokyo, 1992: Iwanami Shoten)

Polish

Pokrzywione drzewo czlowieczenstwa, trans. Magda Pietrzak-Merta andMaciej Tanski (Warsaw,2004: Prószynski)

Portuguese

Limites da utopia (Sao Paulo, 1991: Schwarcz)

Romanian

(Bucharest, 1991: Humanitas)

Spanish

Arbol que crece torcido (Mexico, 1992: Vuelta) El fuste torcido de la humanidad,trans. José Manuel Álvarez Flórez, introduced by Salvador Giner (Barcelona,1992: Península; paperback, 2002) ‘La unidad europea y susvicisitudes’ and ‘Giambattista Vico y la historia cultural’, in Isaiah Berlin, Antología de ensayos, ed. Joaquín Abellán (Madrid, 1995: Calpe)

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