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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 generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become even more prescient and vital today.
But who was the man behind such influential views? Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges.
This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work had for most of his life remained largely out of view.
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 generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become even more prescient and vital today.
But who was the man behind such influential views? Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges.
This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work had for most of his life remained largely out of view.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant
1. The Beginning
Making Books
2. A Project is Born
3. Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet
4. Selected Writings
5. An Unremarkable Decade
6. The Crooked Timber of Humanity
7. The Magus of the North
8. The Sense of Reality
Probing Ideas
9. Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature
10. Pluralism and Religion
11. The Moral Core and the Human Horizon
12. The End
13. Epilogue
Appendix: A Posthumous Letter to Berlin
References and Asides
Select Biographical Glossary
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780755601318 |
ISBN-10: | 0755601319 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Hardy, Henry |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 195 x 132 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Henry Hardy |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.03.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,273 kg |
List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant
1. The Beginning
Making Books
2. A Project is Born
3. Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet
4. Selected Writings
5. An Unremarkable Decade
6. The Crooked Timber of Humanity
7. The Magus of the North
8. The Sense of Reality
Probing Ideas
9. Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature
10. Pluralism and Religion
11. The Moral Core and the Human Horizon
12. The End
13. Epilogue
Appendix: A Posthumous Letter to Berlin
References and Asides
Select Biographical Glossary
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780755601318 |
ISBN-10: | 0755601319 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Hardy, Henry |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 195 x 132 x 27 mm |
Von/Mit: | Henry Hardy |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.03.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,273 kg |