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  • In Search of Isaiah Berlin

    A Literary Adventure

    by Henry Hardy ...
    The compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between social and political theorist Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print.Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Concepts and Categories

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "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 BerlinThis volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karl Marx

    Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Terrell Carver ...
    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 mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Power of Ideas

    Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "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 philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Against the Current

    Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Three Critics of the Enlightenment

    Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on these celebrated and captivating ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Freedom and Its Betrayal

    Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom—views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Roots of Romanticism

    Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth centuryIn 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 ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Personal Impressions

    Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin, Noel Annan ...
    In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Political Ideas in the Romantic Age

    Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD