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Berlin, Isaiah
by The Power of Ideas
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- ISBN 10
- 0691092761
- ISBN 13
- 9780691092768
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Princeton. 2002. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691092761. Edited by Henry Hardy. 240 pages. paperback. . keywords: Philosophy History . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ISAIAH BERLIN The Power of Ideas Edited by Henry Hardy The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas, and of their progenitors. A rich variety of subject-matters is represented - from philosophy to education, from Russia to Israel, from Marxism to romanticism - so that the truth of Heine's warning is exemplified on a broad front. It is a warning that Berlin often referred to, and provides an answer to those who ask, as from time to time they do, why intellectual history matters. Among the contents are My Intellectual Path', Berlin's last essay, a retrospective autobiographical survey of his main preoccupations, and Jewish Slavery and Emancipation', the classic statement of his Zionist views, long unavailable in faint. His other subjects include the Enlightenment, Giambattista Vico, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, G. V. Plekhanov, the Russian intelligentsia, the idea of liberty, political realism, nationalism and historicism. The book exhibits the full range of his remarkably wide expertise, and demonstrates the striking and enormously engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas. inventory #40308 ISBN: 0691092761.
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- Title
- Berlin, Isaiah
- Author
- The Power of Ideas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691092761
- ISBN 13
- 9780691092768
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Ewing, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- December 26, 2001
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