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Isaiah Berlin
‘A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master’ Robert McCrum, Guardian Isaiah Berlin’s classic essay on Tolstoy
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Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. The son of…
‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’ Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an…
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This is one of Isaiah Berlin’s earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which were at the heart of his…
In addition to Tolstoy’s philosophy of history, the author considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia…
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Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. In this volume, ten political theorists reconsider Berlin's thought-especially his famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty"-in…
Henry Hardy
Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive…
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This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin’s central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of…
The main theme of this collection of essays is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom. The book offers a powerful defence…
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These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include My Intellectual Path , an autobiographical survey…
Kei Hiruta
For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers - and how their profound disagreements continue to offer important lessons…
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and the long agony of the Vietnam War grinds on in the background. At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four Essays on Liberty…
Sie beleuchtet sowohl seine Person und seine Persoenlichkeit als auch den sozialen und historischen Kontext, in den Marx hineingeboren wurde, in dem er aufwuchs und der seine Entwicklung als Philosoph…
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When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul’s School in London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow of All Souls, where he writes…
A collection of essays by Isaiah Berlin, which include the topics: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature…
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It encapsulates the…
Included here are Berlin’s early arguments against logical positivism, and later essays reflecting his interest in political theory, intellectual history and the philosophy of history. He states: The goal of…
Liberty is an edition of Isaiah Berlin’s classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin’s editor Henry Hardy has incorporated a fifth essay, and added further pieces on the same…
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Written in preparation for his lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1952, the author talks about his subject and about his own intellectual development. He lays out in one…
The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin’s remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
Scrutinising the leading politicians of the day, including Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, this book draws illuminating sketches of public figures, notably contrasting the personas of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrey Sakharov.
Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. In this volume, ten political theorists reconsider Berlin’s thought-especially his famous essay, Two Concepts of Liberty…
Sir Isaiah Berlin
Berlin’s The Sense of Reality made available, in the months before the author’s death, an important body of previously unknown work by one of the century’s leading historians of ideas…
This volume gathers tributes, reflections and commentaries on the great thinker Isaiah Berlin and his philosophy, politics and life - including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald, Dworkin, and…
Johnny Lyons
The first comprehensive study of Isaiah Berlin’s philosophy. Berlin was a major figure in 20th-century Anglophone thought whose philosophy is coming to new prominence.
Claude J. Galipeau
This is the first systematic study of Sir Isaiah Berlin’s political ideas to draw on all of his writings. Claude Galipeau’s focus is on Berlin’s defence of political liberalism, and…
Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment explores the development of Berlin’s conception of the Enlightenment, noting its indebtedness to a specific German intellectual tradition. The book examines his comments on individual…
Ramin Jahanbegloo
Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time. Philosopher and leading proponent of liberal thinking, Isaiah Berlin has…
As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term Counter-Enlightenment nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated…
This volume highlights Berlin’s significance to contemporary readers, regarding not only liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and pluralism, but also political theory, history, and the social sciences. Berlin’s…
This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage-points: essential reading for…
Takes up the story of the author when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. This title charts years of academic frustration…
Isaiah Berlin’s response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin’s works and will prove…
A book containing the edited transcripts of the Mellon lecture series, given by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin in Washington in 1965 on the subject of Romanticism. It is accompanied by…
The Proper Study of Mankind brings together Berlin’s most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his…
This first volume of letters inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin’s letters. Berlin’s life was enormously worth living, both for himself and for us; and fortunately he said a…
This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin’s Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War.
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Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. This book examines Berlin’s work across its whole range, including his treatment…
A. Dubnov
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin’s…
John Gray
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal…
George Crowder
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century, and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. This title provides both an accessible introduction to…
Isaiah Berlin is one of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century and his work continues to attract admiration and debate. This title provides both an introduction to Berlin’s…
This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. By looking below at the often neglected foundations…
