The Power of Ideas - Rilegato

Berlin, Isaiah

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ISBN 10: 069105018X ISBN 13: 9780691050188

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Dept of Art &, 2000

Riassunto

A collection of powerful essays by the great scholar covers a rich selection of subjects, including Marxism, romanticism, Russia, Israel, liberty, intellectualism, and much more.

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Recensione

"Berlin's views on such disparate topics as Marxism, romanticism, liberty and Zionism are all covered in this excellent collection of his essays. . . . Ideas aren't what they used to be, but there is no one better able than Berlin to relate their glorious and not so glorious history. Each of the essays fulfils Raymond Carver's criterion for the short story: to leave the reader's body temperature a degree higher or lower than when the book was opened."--Nicholas Fearn, The Independent (London)
"A volume which covers the key areas of Berlin's interests in an unusually accessible way; it will take its place as, quite simply, the best short introduction to his thinking. . . . [A]ll the arguments most closely associated with Berlin--above all, about freedom and human values--can be found here."--Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph (London)
"The collection is thoroughly eclectic and engaging to read. You never know what the next morsel will taste of and, like a delectable plate of appetisers, the variety whets the appetite."--Judith Armstrong, Australian's Review of Books

"If he did nothing else, Berlin put the ideas back into history. . . . This posthumous collection, containing some of his best work, show how seriously he took the task of inspiring the general reader."--Daniel Johnson, The Daily Telegraph

L'autore

Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among themKarl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, and from Princeton,Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, Against the Current, The Power of Ideas, Freedom and Its Betrayal, andThree Critics of the Enlightenment. Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Dept of Art &
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 069105018X
• ISBN 13: 9780691050188
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Hardy Henry