'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement 'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books 'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker 'Ingenious. Exa
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'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement 'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books 'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker 'Ingenious. Exa
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers dissects and assesses a movement that changed the course of history. Brilliant, fresh, immediate, and eloquent, these celebrated Mellon Lectures are a bravura in
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosop
Is freedom simply the absence of interference-or the power to direct your own life? In Two Concepts of Liberty, Isaiah Berlin offers one of the most influential arguments in modern political philosophy. He distinguishes negative liberty, or freedom from c
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 mankin
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "For anyone wanting to understand the twists and turns of the history of ideas, this book will be indispensable." John Gray, New York Times Book Review The Sense of Reality was the last new collection 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 activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in
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 its critics and giving a sympathetic account of
Isaiah Berlins Buch handelt von Freiheit als Leitbegriff einer Humanität, von der programmatische Zurichtungen des Freiheitsbegriffs in spekulativer wie politischer Absicht doch oft genug abirrten. In Philosophie und Gesellschaftstheorie verfolgt Berlin d
"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 Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to phil
He becomes everymans guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best