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Isaiah Berlin : a life
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ISBN: 0805055207 9780805055207 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Metropolitan books


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Isaiah Berlin : the journey of a Jewish liberal.
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ISBN: 9780230110700 Year: 2012 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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"This study offers a fresh reappraisal of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) from childhood to the height of his intellectual career. It provides the first historically contextualized study of Berlin's formative years and identifies different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism. Applying a 'double perspective' that examines Berlin both as an East European Jewish émigré; as well as a British Liberal intellectual, author Arie Dubnov stresses the very ambivalent relation between Berlin's liberal philosophy and his pro-Zionist sentiments"--


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The book of Isaiah : personal impressions of Isaiah Berlin
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ISBN: 1782041419 1282987682 9786612987687 1846156955 1843834537 1843838761 Year: 2009 Publisher: Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Oxford : Boydell Press ; In association with Wolfson College,

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This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage points.

Liberty : incorporating four essays on liberty
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ISBN: 019924989X 0199249881 0191598801 9780191598807 9780199249893 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Five essays on liberty / Isaiah Berlin ## Other writings on liberty / Isaiah Berlin ## Autobiographical appendices / Isaiah Berlin ## Berlin and his critics / Ian Harris ## Concordance to Four essays on liberty

Isaiah Berlin's counter-enlightenment
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ISSN: 00659746 ISBN: 0871699354 9780871699350 Year: 2003 Volume: 93/5 Publisher: London ; New York, NY ; Rheine : American Philosophical Society,

Isaiah Berlin's liberalism
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ISBN: 0198278683 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford Clarendon Oxford University Press


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Isaiah Berlin : an interpretation of his thought
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ISBN: 9780691157429 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of letters. He has been called the century's most inspired reader. Yet Berlin's contributions to thought--in particular to moral and political philosophy, and to liberal theory--are little understood, and surprisingly neglected by the academic world. In this book, they are shown to be animated by a single, powerful, subversive idea: value-pluralism which affirms the reality of a deep conflict between ultimate human values that reason cannot resolve. Though bracingly clear-headed, humane and realist, Berlin's value-pluralism runs against the dominant Western traditions, secular and religious, which avow an ultimate harmony of values. It supports a highly distinctive restatement of liberalism in Berlin's work--an agnostic liberalism, which is founded not on rational choice but on the radical choices we make when faced with intractable dilemmas. It is this new statement of liberalism, the central subject of John Gray's lively and lucid book, which gives the liberal intellectual tradition a new lease on life, a new source of life, and which comprises Berlin's central and enduring legacy. In a new introduction, Gray argues that, in a world in which human freedom has spread more slowly than democracy, Berlin's account of liberty and basic decency is more instructive and useful than ever.

Christianity, tolerance, and pluralism
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ISBN: 0415329086 0203391217 9780203391211 9780415329088 9780415646628 0415646626 9781134332267 1134332262 9781134332212 1134332211 9781134332250 1134332254 0203685474 9780203685471 1280078839 9781280078835 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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This book provides a sustained, critical and theological engagement with arguably the most crucial aspect of contemporary society - its diversity. The author finds in the social theory of Isaiah Berlin a number of fruitful ways to reframe the debate over these questions, and to contribute to a more positive conversation regarding our fundamental differences. The book focuses particularly on Berlin's critique of monism and idealistic utopianism, arguing that pluralism does not represent a failure in the nature of human society, but a superabundance of possibilities in a created world gr

The Soviet mind : Russian culture under communism
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ISBN: 0815709048 Year: 2004

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Berlin (former professor of social and political theory, Oxford U., UK), well known for his political philosophy and its distinction between positive and negative freedoms, was less recognized as a Russian-Jewish migr . This collection of 10 essays gathers his writings on the USSR and includes his reflections on the work of Boris Pasternak and Osip


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Isaac and isaiah
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ISBN: 0300195346 9780300195347 9781299648203 1299648207 0300192096 9780300192094 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Yale University Press

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Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of the ideological clash between two of the most influential scholars of Cold War politics, David Caute uncovers a hidden story of passionate beliefs, unresolved antagonism, and the high cost of reprisal to both victim and perpetrator.Though Deutscher (1907-1967) and Berlin (1909-1997) had much in common-each arrived in England in flight from totalitarian violence, quickly mastered English, and found entry into the Anglo-American intellectual world of the 1950s-Berlin became one of the presiding voices of Anglo-American liberalism, while Deutscher remained faithful to his Leninist heritage, resolutely defending Soviet conduct despite his rejection of Stalin's tyranny. Caute combines vivid biographical detail with an acute analysis of the issues that divided these two icons of Cold War politics, and brings to light for the first time the full severity of Berlin's action against Deutscher.

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