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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Isaiah Berlin; Isaiah Berlin, Sir. |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy; Ian Harris |
| ISBN: | 0199249881 9780199249886 019924989X 9780199249893 |
| OCLC Number: | 49330604 |
| Notes: | "Four Essays on Liberty issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1969. Liberty published in hardback and paperback 2002" - t. p. verso. |
| Description: | xxxiv, 382 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction ---- Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century --- Historical Inevitability --- Two Concepts of Liberty --- John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life --- From Hope and Fear Set Free --- Other Writings on Liberty --- Liberty --- The Birth of Greek Individualism --- Final Retrospect --- Autobiographical Appendices --- The Purpose Justifies the Ways --- A Letter to George Kennan --- Notes on Prejudice --- Berlin and his Critics by Ian Harris. |
| Responsibility: | Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; with an essay on Berlin and his critics by Ian Harris. |
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Abstract:
An edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, "Four Essays on Liberty", this book incorporates a fifth essay, and adds further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together. This book throws biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawn from his writings.
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'A magnificent and indispensable volume: the best introduction to the most important and enduring of Berlin's ideas.' John Gray
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