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The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism from Brookings Institution Press Price: $28.95 |
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. from Princeton University Press Price: $22.95 Customer Review:  Sir Isaiah Berlin was the greatest exponent of Liberal Pluralism in the 20th Century. "Against The Current" is probably his best collection of essays. The essays on Verdi and George Sorel are worth the price of the book alone. Do yourself a favor and read this book. You will not regret it. |
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays from Farrar Straus Giroux Price: $14.00 Customer Review: Isaiah Berlin wrote a lot of essays, as the size of this book, THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND, absolutely demonstrates. Near the middle of the book is an essay, "The Originality of Machiavelli," which shows how well Berlin could categorize intellectual activities into various kinds of... |
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment from Princeton University Press Price: $14.67 Customer Review:  Following that dictum, I might point out that, especially in two areas of contemporary concern, Hamann's thought is highly relevant: Oswald Bayer has shown in Autoritaet und Kritik (1991) that Hamann's hermeneutics -- antedating by two centuries Derrida's reflections on intertextuality -- provides... |
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Freedom and Its Betrayal : Six Enemies of Human Liberty from Princeton University Press Price: $12.57 Customer Review:  I was more familiar with German philosophy, as an intellectual reaction to the French revolution, than with the French and Italian thinkers who are also discussed in the radio lectures which are included in this book. I also have the book, KARL MARX by Isaiah Berlin, and noticed some of the same... |
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History from Ivan R. Dee Publisher Price: $6.95 Customer Review: Sir Isaiah Berlin has written a critical acclaim of the historic views of famous Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy as expressed in one of his masterpieces "War and Piece". In 'The Hedgehog and The Fox' (1953), Dr. Berlin compares and contracts the monist and pluralist historical philosophies. According... |
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Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty from Oxford University Press Price: $13.27 Customer Review: Berlin's essays provide some of the most original arguments for the priority of individual liberty, and particularly so-called negative rights, those that give us the right to be left alone. His writing is at once lucid and colorful. An essential volume for those interested in freedom. |
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity from Princeton University Press Price: $10.47 Customer Review: There is an index for this collection of essays, but it does not find much to point to about the United States of America, except where particular examples get mixed in with the clutter of events that are described as the context of the rise of nationalism: "So too, it may be that no minority that... |
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My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen from University of California Press Price: $17.59 Customer Review: In the years before Lenin and the harsh, bleak application of socialist thought to autocracy there existed a group of philosophers who believed in the beauty of the commune and its cooperation with a Republican government. Britain had Robert Owen and his factory town, the French had Fourier (the... |
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The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History from Farrar Straus Giroux Price: $10.40 Customer Review: I have, since first reading this book a few years ago, made an effort to add it to the libraries of all my friends whenever a holiday occurs. It is a book that I reread whenever I want to be stimulated. The opening essay, "The Sense of Reality", is a masterful study of historical thinking. Berlin is... |
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