An edition of Isaiah Berlin (1998)

Isaiah Berlin

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An edition of Isaiah Berlin (1998)

Isaiah Berlin

a life

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Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a presiding judge of intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic for sixty years: historian of the Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny.

When he died in 1997, he was hailed as the most important liberal philosopher of his time. But Berlin's life was not only a life of the mind. Present at the crucial events of our age, he was in Washington during World War II, in Moscow at the dawn of the Cold War, in Israel as the new state came into being.

For this definitive biography - the result of a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject - Michael Ignatieff, himself a leading public intellectual, interviewed Berlin extensively and was granted complete access to his papers, one of the largest archives in Anglo-American cultural history.

Ignatieff charts the emergence of a unique liberal temperament - serene, comic, secular, and unafraid - and he examines its influence on Berlin's vision of liberalism, which stressed the often tragic nature of political and moral choice.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
356

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Isaiah Berlin: a life
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Isaiah Berlin: a life
1998, Metropolitan Books
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Isaiah Berlin
October 22, 1998, Chatto and Windus
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First published: Toronto : Viking, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Genre
Biography.

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192

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356 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
356

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OL19477055M
ISBN 10
014026857X
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102845

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"Albany is set back behind a small carriage yard off Piccadilly, opposite Hatchards bookshop and Fortnum & Mason's."

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