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In Search of Isaiah Berlin
A Literary Adventure
Taschenbuch von Henry Hardy
Sprache: Englisch

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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 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 Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished.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.
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 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 Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished.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.
Über den Autor
Henry Hardy
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAbbreviations

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 AsidesSelect Biographical GlossaryIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780755601318
ISBN-10: 0755601319
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hardy, Henry
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Maße: 195 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Hardy
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,273 kg
Artikel-ID: 117889233
Über den Autor
Henry Hardy
Zusammenfassung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAbbreviations

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 AsidesSelect Biographical GlossaryIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780755601318
ISBN-10: 0755601319
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hardy, Henry
Hersteller: Bloomsbury USA
Maße: 195 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Hardy
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,273 kg
Artikel-ID: 117889233
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