Isaiah Berlin
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 069104824X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has been called the century's most inspired reader.Yet Berlin's contributions to thought--in particular to moral and political philosophy, and to liberal theory--are little understood, and surprisingly neglected by the academic world. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. It supports a highly distinctive restatement of liberalism in Berlin's work--an agnostic liberalism, which is founded not on rational choice but on the radical choices we make when faced with intractable dilemmas. Though bracingly clear-headed, humane and realist, Berlin's value-pluralism runs against the dominant Western traditions, secular and religious, which avow an ultimate harmony of values. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. In this book, they are shown to be animated by a single, powerful, subversive idea: value-pluralism which affirms the reality of a deep conflict between ultimate human values that reason cannot resolve. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of letters. It is this new statement of liberalism, the central subject of John Gray
"Excellent" according to meadowreader. For some reason, the other reviews, with one exception, are not reviews of John Gray's, "Isaiah Berlin;" they are instead reviews of a compilation of Berlin's writing, "Four Essays on Liberty." I don't know how this happened, but I will review Gray's book, ISBN 0691026Excellent For some reason, the other reviews, with one exception, are not reviews of John Gray's, "Isaiah Berlin;" they are instead reviews of a compilation of Berlin's writing, "Four Essays on Liberty." I don't know how this happened, but I will review Gray's book, ISBN 0691026351.Gray presents a compact (168 pages) intellectual biography of Berlin, an affectionate, fair, yet critical survey of his thought and works. It is an excellent resource, and it provides the reader with the background and context necessary for understanding Berlin's rather voluminous and disparate writings. Thi. 51.Gray presents a compact (168 pages) intellectual biography of Berlin, an affectionate, fair, yet critical survey of his thought and works. It is an excellent resource, and it provides the reader with the background and context necessary for understanding Berlin's rather voluminous and disparate writings. Thi. Same as Isaiah Berlin, published in 1995 Other than the new introduction this is the same book titled "Isaiah Berlin" by John Gray published in 1995. If you not read that book then by all means order this one as Isaiah Berlin is some one worth reading about and reading his own works. If you thought you knew everything about the Enlightenment than you need to read books by Isaiah Berlin to give you the other side of the story. The only other author to capture the other side of the Enlightenment is Frederick Copleston.. A Customer said Lays out Berlin's thoughts pretty well!. This book came out in the mid 1990s right when the biggest debates were dealing with cultural diversity and affirmative action. No book not even this one can capture the essence and writings of Berlin's writing that expanded nearly six decades yet it provides a fresh analysis of his ideas to those who aren't familiar with the 'history of ideas' and unleashed in the public debate about what to do about the remnants of liberalism and multiculturalism in this day and age. I recommend buying this highly.
Recipient of knighthood and the Order of Merit, he has been the head of an Oxford College and the director of the Royal Opera House. During World War II, he acted as Winston Churchill's eyes and ears in America. For more than half a century, the renowned liberal thinker Sir Isaiah Berlin has occupied an important spot at the center of British intellectual and public life. He is also a talented and prolific writer with five volumes of essays to his name. . Surprisingly, John Gray's book is only the third full-length examination of one of this century's seminal thinkers