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Liberty : incorporating four essays on liberty

Author: Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy; Ian Harris
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of a modern classic of liberalism, Four Essays On Liberty, regarded by Isaiah Berlin as his most important book, and constantly discussed since its publication in 1969. Irving Howe described it in Harper's as 'an exhilarating performance - this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be'." "Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has told the story of the book's genesis,  Read more...
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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.
Responsibility: Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; with an essay on Berlin and his critics by Ian Harris.
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"Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of a modern classic of liberalism, Four Essays On Liberty, regarded by Isaiah Berlin as his most important book, and constantly discussed since its publication in 1969. Irving Howe described it in Harper's as 'an exhilarating performance - this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be'." "Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has told the story of the book's genesis, revised the text, identified sources, incorporated a fifth essay that Berlin had wanted to include, and added three further pieces, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are now gathered together. Three appendices drawn from Berlin's unpublished papers help us to understand the core of personal conviction from which his writings sprang. A guide by Ian Harris to the huge literature stimulated by Berlin's ideas completes the volume."--BOOK JACKET.

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