The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays - Rilegato

Berlin, Isaiah; Hausheer, Roger

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ISBN 10: 0374237506 ISBN 13: 9780374237509

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

Riassunto

A collection of Isaiah Berlin's essays

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Series; Pimlico ; 287. Physical description; xxxvi, 667 p. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes concise bibliography of Berlin's writings (p. [638]-643). Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations. The concept of scientific history; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism. 'From hope and fear set free'; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism. Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas. The counter-enlightenment; The originality of Machiavelli; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities; Herder and the enlightenment -- Russian writers. The hedgehog and the fox; Herzen and his memoirs; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age. The apotheosis of the romantic will; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures. Winston Churchill in 1940; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Summary; This book is wide ranging, penetrating, innovative and extremely readable. It includes Berlin's famous essays on liberty, pluralism and nationalism as well as studies of figures such as Churchill and Roosevelt.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374237506
• ISBN 13: 9780374237509
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 667
• Redattore: Hardy Henry, Hausneer Roger