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In these conversations Isaiah Berlin, one of the most renowned thinkers of our time, discusses the development of his ideas and political philosophy, ...
Letters, 1928-1946
The first volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters....
A Celebration
A collection of essays published as a tribute to Isaiah Berlin on his 82nd birthday. The essays concentrate on themes such as the history of ideas, Ru...
The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in ...
This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or poli...
"Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century", Historical Inevitability", "Two Concepts of Liberty", "John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life". These four ...
Studies in Ideas and Their History
Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality at last makes available an important body of previously unknown work by one of our leading historians of ideas an...
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in...
'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the sti...
Updated Edition
In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of pr...
Philosophical Essays
Although Isaiah Berlin liked to say that he left philosophy for the history of ideas after the Second World War, there is a decided continuity between...
'Liberty' is a modern classic of liberalism which gathers together Isaiah Berlin's principal statements on human freedom, and surveys the huge and gro...
Delivered on 12 May 1953 at the London School of Economics and Political Science....
Isaiah Berlin is regarded by many as one of the greatest historians of ideas of his time. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity, he argues passionately, e...
Letters 1928 - 1946
Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, and as entertaining. During the two decades covered here his personality and career grow and bloom. In A...
Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are publish...
Second Edition
The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the o...
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique ...
His Life and Environment
In turn, Berlin presents an account of Marx's life as one of the most influential and incendiary social philosophers of the nineteenth century and bri...
Russian Culture under Communism
โBerlinโs great powers of observation combine with his great knowledge and literary gifts to provide us with a fascinating series of insights.โ ...
By I. Berlin [And Others]
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Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition
This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this vol...
Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition
Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay fo...
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Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
"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 t...
Philosophical Essays - Second Edition
"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah B...
Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
This title includes the following features: A new, expanded edition of what Isaiah Berlin himself regarded as his most important book; Includes a fift...
Essays in the History of Ideas
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history o...
Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought
'I was exhausted at the end, & yet I am sure that if ever I saw & heard anyone in a true state of inspiration it was then.'So wrote Isaiah Berlin's se...
Chapters in the History of Ideas
An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, des...
Essays in Honour and Memory of Isaiah Berlin
The design of this book is both interdisciplinary and comparative, offering historical, philosophical, legal, sociological, political and media perspe...
An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword. 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog kno...
With Letters from Isaiah Berlin and the Late Karl R. Popper
Letters 1960-1975
In the period covered here (1960โ75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President (and is assassinated); Berl...
Two Studies in the History of Ideas
About the philosophy of Giambattista Vico, 1668- 1774 and Johann Gottfried Herder, 1774-1803....
Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin
The 18th Century Philosophers