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a life

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An edition of Isaiah Berlin (1998)

Isaiah Berlin

a life

1st American ed.
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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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Metropolitan Books
Language
English
Pages
356

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Cover of: Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin: a life
1998, Metropolitan Books
in English - 1st American ed.
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Isaiah Berlin
October 22, 1998, Chatto and Windus
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-338) and index.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
192, B
Library of Congress
B1618.B454 I45 1998, B1618.B454I45 1998

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356 p. :
Number of pages
356

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OL377667M
Internet Archive
isaiahberlinlife00igna
ISBN 10
0805055207
LCCN
98039691
OCLC/WorldCat
39860030
Library Thing
102845
Goodreads
843724

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