Isaiah Berlin and the enlightenment / edited by Laurence Brockliss, Ritchie Robertson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockliss, L. W. B., editor.

Robertson, Ritchie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Berlin, Isaiah.

Political science--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Political science.

Enlightenment.

Philosophy--History--20th century.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 258 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

'Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment' explores the development of Berlin's conception of the Enlightenment, noting its indebtedness to a specific German intellectual tradition. The book examines his comments on individual writers, arguing that some assigned to the Counter-Enlightenment have closer affinities to the Enlightenment than he recognized.

Contents:

Part I. An Idea in Context

1. Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, and the Enlightenment/ David Leopold

2. Berlin's Conception of the Enlightenment/ Lawrence Brockliss and Ritchie Robertson

3. Between Friedrich Meinecke and Ernst Cassirer: Isaiah Berlin's Bifurcated Enlightenment / Avi Lifschitz

Part II. Enlightenment Thinkers

4. Berlin and Hume / P. J. E. Kail

5. Berlin and Montequieu / Karen O'Brien

6. Isaiah Berlin and the Origins of the 'Totalitarian' Rousseau / Christopher Brooke

7. Rococo Enlightenment> Berlin, Hamann, and Diderot / Marian Hobson

8. Sympathy and Empathy: Isaiah's Dilemma, or How He Let the Enlightenment Down / T. J. Reed

9. Isaiah Berlin, J. S. Mill, and Progress / Alan Ryan

Part III. Counter-Enlightenments?

10. Berlin, Machiavelli, and the Enlightenment / Ritchie Robertson

11. Berlin. Vico, and the Critique of Enlightenment / John Robertson

12. 'Populism, Expressionism, Pluralism'

and God? Herder's Cultural Theory and Theology / Kevin Hillard

13. Discovering Isaiah Berlin in Moses Hess's Rome and Jerusalem / Ken Koltun-Fromm

14. Isaiah Berlin and Russia Intelligentsia / Derek Offord

Part IV. Berlin's Legacy

15. Isaiah Berlin's Neglect of Enlightenment Constitutionalism / Jeremy Waldron

16. Second Thoughts of a Biographer / Michael Ignatieff.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Isaiah Berlin and the enlightenment.

ISBN:

0-19-182658-8

0-19-108653-3