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Named Person: | Isaiah Berlin; Isaiah Berlin |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Hardy |
ISBN: | 0199249881 9780199249886 019924989X 9780199249893 |
OCLC Number: | 48532369 |
Notes: | Previous edition: 1996. |
Description: | 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | THE EDITOR'S TALE; FIVE ESSAYS ON LIBERTY; OTHER WRITINGS ON LIBERTY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL APPENDICES; BERLIN AND HIS CRITICS BY IAN HARRIS; INDEX |
Responsibility: | edited by Henry Hardy. |
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These famous essays ... are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth century figures as Herzen and Mill ... * Philip Toynbee, Observer * Practically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers - the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison. * Alan Ryan, New Society * 'Liberty not only offers a comprehensive overview of Isaiah Berlin's main topics and ideas, but also enables us to understand the development and relevance of those ideas in the context of his personality. * Steffen Gross, Dialektik * For anyone wishing to have the essence of Berlin's thinking, Liberty is the volume to have. * John Banville, Irish Times * A magnificent and indispensable volume: the best introduction to the most important and enduring of Berlin's ideas. * John Gray * Read more...

