Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as...
Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if ...
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 of Berlin's main preoccupations, and Jewish Slavery and Emancipation, the classic statement of his Zionist views.
These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include My Intellectual P...
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 lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics.
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 th...
The first publication of this major work by Isaiah Berlin, regarded by many as the twentieth century s greatest thinker. It is the only text he ever wrote in which he laid out in one connected account most of his key insights about the romantic age. "
The first publication of this major work by Isaiah Berlin, regarded by many as the twentieth century s greatest thinker. It is the only text he ever w...
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's...
Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man...
Exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: between the Platonic belief in absolute truth and the lure of authoritarianism; and between the eighteenth-century reactionary ideologue Joseph de Maistre and twentieth-century Fascism.
Exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: between the Platonic belief in absolute truth...
The long-awaited Isaiah Berlin 'Reader' -- an anthology of his best and most representative work, drawn from a lifetime's writing by this most distinguished philosopher and historian of ideas. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW MARR Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. "The Proper Study of Mankind" selects some of the best of his essays. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine -- pluralism -- to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In...
The long-awaited Isaiah Berlin 'Reader' -- an anthology of his best and most representative work, drawn from a lifetime's writing by this most disting...
The third volume of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable letters takesreaders from 1960 to 1975
In the period covered hereIsaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes U.S. President (and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war of 1967 creates problems that remain with us today; Richard M. Nixon succeeds Johnson as President and resigns over Watergate; 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,...
The third volume of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable letters takesreaders from 1960 to 1975
In the period covered hereIsaiah Berlin creates Wolfson Col...
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 a recording, on compact disc, of Berlin delivering the final lecture.
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 ...
Brings together three major studies from author's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and give a sympathetic account of their views.
Brings together three major studies from author's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlig...
