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The power of ideas
- Title
- The power of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy.
- Author
- Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | B1618.B451 H37 2000b | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hardy, Henry.
- Description
- xv, 240 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role--past, present and future--of ideas, and of their progenitors. A rich variety of subject-matters is represented--from philosophy to education, from Russia to Israel, from Marxism to romanticism--so that the truth of Heine's warning is exemplified on a broad front. It is a warning that Berlin often referred to, and provides an answer to those who ask, as from time to time they do, why intellectual history matters. -- Book jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- My intellectual path --- The purpose of philosophy --- The philosophers of the Enlightenment --- One of the boldest innovators in the history of human thought --- Russian intellectual history --- The man who became a myth --- A revolutionary without fanaticism --- The role of the intelligentsia --- Liberty --- The philosophy of Karl Marx --- The father of Russian Marxism --- Realism in politics --- The origins of Israel --- Jewish slavery and emancipation --- Chaim Weizmann's leadership --- The search for status --- The essence of European romanticism --- Meinecke and historicism --- General education.
- ISBN
- 069105018X
- 9780691050188
- 9780691092768
- 0691092761
- LCCN
- 99068984
- OCLC
- ocm43720812
- 43720812
- SCSB-1031901
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library