In search of Isaiah Berlin : a literary adventure / Henry Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Henry, author.

Contributor:

Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers.

Great Britain.

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Berlin, Isaiah.

Philosophers--Great Britain--20th century--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Summary:

"Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become even more prescient and vital today. But who was the man behind such influential philosophies? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who illuminated a new way of thinking about the world, yet whose own life has for so long remained in the shadows"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Making Books

2 A Project Is Born p. 23

3 Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet p. 41

4 Selected Writings p. 54

5 An Unremarkable Decade p. 96

6 The Crooked Timber of Humanity p. 104

7 The Magus of the North p. 121

8 The Sense of Reality p. 131

Probing Ideas

9 Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature p. 169

10 Pluralism and Religion p. 183

11 The Moral Core and the Human Horizon p. 228.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tobias Wagner Library Fund.

ISBN:

1788312449

9781788312448

OCLC:

1001893468