This phrase titles a book which argues that Joseph de Maistre served as a precursor to modern fascism, subtitled "Chapters in the History of Ideas." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thing, from which one thinker said "no straight thing was ever made."
ANSWER: the crooked timber of humanity [or so krummem Holze]
[10m] This thinker titled one essay collection The Crooked Timber of humanity. This thinker borrowed from a fragment from Archilochus which distinguishes between those who know "one thing" and "many things" to title an essay.
ANSWER: Isaiah Berlin
[10e] This thinker wrote about "the crooked timber of humanity" in an essay titled "An Idea of a Universal History." This thinker wrote The Critique of Pure Reason.
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
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