2004, ISBN: 9780701174200

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. xvii, 213 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "A celebrated master of the spoken as well as the … Mehr…

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. xvii, 213 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "A celebrated master of the spoken as well as the written word, Isaiah Berlin here gives us a rare memoir in the form of a dialogue. Isaiah Berlin is renowned the world over for his analysis of the ideas that have influenced or transformed societies. He has a deep commitment to liberty and pluralism, and has devoted the half century and more of his professional life as a teacher and lecturer to exploring the conditions that allow these ideals to flourish, and those that threaten them. Berlin here intersperses insights into the development of his ideas and political philosophy with rich personal reminiscences. He discusses Machiavelli, Marx, Vico, Herder, and Herzen, among others, and their influence over him. As he leads us from Petrograd to Oxford, Washington, Moscow, London, and Jerusalem, he speaks of his friends and contemporaries: W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Igor Stravinsky, A. J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell, and many others. He tells of his moving encounters with Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Chaim Weizmann, and of his passion for music and literature. Frank and engaging, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin is a remarkable record of one of the great intellectual odysseys of our time." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991, 5, Princeton. 1997. Princeton University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0691058385. Edited by Henry Hardy. 276 pages. paperback. Cover photograph by Joe Partridge. keywords: Philosophy History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Isaiah Berlin is renowned the world over for his analysis of the ideas that have influenced or transformed societies. Deeply committed to individual and collective liberty, and to moral and political pluralism, he has devoted the half-century and more of his professional life as a teacher and lecturer to exploring the conditions that allow these ideals to flourish, and those that threaten them. Now this new collection brings together the latest in a series of brilliant essays that address some of the urgent social and political questions facing our changing world. With matchless authority, Berlin writes on such immense issues as nationalism, European unity, fascism, relativism, and cultural history. The range of essays collected here is wide, though they are all concerned with varieties of antirationalism. Five of these essays have never been published in a book, including the longest, an extensive study of the late-eighteenth-century thinker Joseph de Maistre and his connection to the origins of fascism. The essays are bound together by a firm rejection of tidy answers to the great social and political problems: as Kant once wrote, ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.' inventory #46275 ISBN: 0691058385., 0, London: Chatton & Windus, 2004 Copy in black cloth on boards with gilt title on spine. Coloured end papers. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Clean contents. This is a heavy book and may require additional postage., Chatton & Windus, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 070117420X

[EAN: 9780701174200], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 10.13], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Edited by Henry Hardy. London : Chatto & Windus, c2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xlvii… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780701174200], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 10.13], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Edited by Henry Hardy. London : Chatto & Windus, c2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xlviii,755 pp. : ill ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - This first volume of letters inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself and for us; and fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul's School in London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow at All Souls, where he writes his famous biography of Karl Marx. When that is complete he moves to New College to teach philosophy, and after the outbreak of the Second World War sails to America in somewhat mysterious circumstances with Guy Burgess. He stays in the USA, working for the British Government (apart from visits home and his famous trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6) until July 1946, when he returns to Oxford, and the volume closes. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780701174200. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, Berlin, Isaiah, Books<

2004, ISBN: 070117420X

[EAN: 9780701174200], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 5.5], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Edited by Henry Hardy. London : Chatto & Windus, c2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xlviii,… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780701174200], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 5.5], [PU: Random House], Jacket, Edited by Henry Hardy. London : Chatto & Windus, c2004. Reprint. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xlviii,755 pp. : ill ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - This first volume of letters inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself and for us; and fortunately he said a great deal to his friends on paper as well as in person. When this volume opens Berlin is eighteen, a pupil at St Paul's School in London. He becomes an undergraduate at Oxford, then a Fellow at All Souls, where he writes his famous biography of Karl Marx. When that is complete he moves to New College to teach philosophy, and after the outbreak of the Second World War sails to America in somewhat mysterious circumstances with Guy Burgess. He stays in the USA, working for the British Government (apart from visits home and his famous trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-6) until July 1946, when he returns to Oxford, and the volume closes. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780701174200. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, Berlin, Isaiah, Books<

2004, ISBN: 9780701174200

London: Chatto and Windus 2004. 8vo. xlviii, 755 pp, illustrated in black and white, name in ink on front endpaper. 9780701174200 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 2004., Chatto and … Mehr…

London: Chatto and Windus 2004. 8vo. xlviii, 755 pp, illustrated in black and white, name in ink on front endpaper. 9780701174200 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 2004., Chatto and Windus 2004, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 070117420X

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