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Isaiah Berlin. Enlightening: Letters ..., Isaiah Berlin
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- Isaiah Berlin. Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960
- ISBN
- 0701178892
- EAN
- 9780701178895
- Type
- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Height
- 57.91
- Length
- 235.97
- Width
- 157.99
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Release Title
- Isaiah Berlin. Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960
- Artist
- Isaiah Berlin
- Brand
- N/A
- Colour
- N/A
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960
- Item Height
- 239mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Popular Philosophy, Books
- Item Width
- 160mm
- Item Weight
- 1176g
- Number of Pages
- 880 Pages
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People are my landscape , Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a passionate concern for individual freedom. His interpretation of political events, historical and contemporary, and his views on how life should be lived, are always grounded in the personal, and his fiercest condemnation is reserved for purveyors of grand abstract theories that ignore what people are really like. This second volume of Berlin s letters takes up the story when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. Against the background of post-war austerity, the letters chart years of academic frustration and self-doubt, the intellectual explosion when he moves from philosophy to the history of ideas, his growing national fame as broadcaster and lecturer, the publication of some of his best-known works, his election to a professorship, and his reaction to knighthood. Berlin s visits to American universities, where he sees McCarthyism at work
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Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780701178895
eBay Product ID (ePID)
87262221
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enlightening: Letters 1946-1960
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy, Books
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
880 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
239mm
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
1176g
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United Kingdom
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