The Proper Study of Mankind

Berlin, Isaiah; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer; foreword by Noel Annan; introdution by Roger Hausheer

ISBN 10: 0701165278 / ISBN 13: 9780701165277

Editore: Chatto & Windus, 1997

Hardcover and dust jacket. Shelf wear. Front end page excised. Clean, unmarked pages. xxxvi, 667 p. ; 24 cm. "He seems to me to have written the truest and the most moving of all interpretations of life that my own generation made." -Noel Annan. Codice articolo 2103100022

Riassunto:

This selection of the best of Berlin's essays seeks to represent the full range of his work. The opening sections include Berlin's defence of philosophy and history against assimilation to the methods of science; his seminal essays on liberty, which created the framework for subsequent discussion; and his exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - which recognizes that equally good ultimate values may come into mortal conflict. These are followed by studies of Machiavelli, Vico and Herder, essays on Russian writers, and portraits of important contemporaries from Akhmatova and Pasternak to Churchill and Roosevelt. Thus this volume aims to encapsulate the principle movements that characterize the modern age.

Product Description: The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

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Titolo: The Proper Study of Mankind
Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus
Data di pubblicazione: 1997
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good