Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Writing: Here The Reader Will Find Berlin's Famous Essay On Tolstoy, The Hedgehog And The Fox; His Penetrating Portraits Of Contemporaries From Pasternak And Akhmatova To Churchill And Roosevelt; His Essays On Liberty And His Exposition Of Pluralism; His Defense Of Philosophy And History Against Assimilation To Scientific Method; And His Brilliant Studies Of Such Intellectual Originals As Machiavelli, Vico, And Herder. 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 Hedghog 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. Isaiah Berlin ; Edited By Henry Hardy And Roger Hausheer ; With A Foreword By Noel Annan ; Introduction By Roger Hausheer. First Published In 1997 By Chatto & Windus Limited, United Kingdom--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 639-644) And Index.
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- Politics & Social Sciences
- Politics & Government
- Ideologies & Doctrines
- Nationalism
- Ideologies & Doctrines
- Politics & Government
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Isaiah Berlin
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2000-08-02
Number Of Pages : 704
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0374527172
ISBN-13 : 9780374527174
Item weight : 1.4 lb
Dimensions : 2.2 in x 5.4 in x 8 in
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