Isaiah Berlin

‘De vos weet van alles, maar de egel weet één groot iets.’ Met deze spreuk deelde Isaiah Berlin grote schrijvers en denkers in. Plato, Dante en Dostoj

Surveys the many attempts to define romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows h

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. This title selects some of the best of his essays. It enc

Twee opvattingen over vrijheidHet werk van de filosoof Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) vormt een van de krachtigste verdedigingen van het westerse pluralism

Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the U.S. from its beginnings in the 17th century to its fiery demise nearly 300 years later.

and the long agony of the Vietnam War grinds on in the background. At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four

Berlin's letters are marvellously accessible, and as entertaining. In America, during the war, he writes a regular telegram to his anxious parents, of

'I was exhausted at the end, & yet I am sure that if ever I saw & heard anyone in a true state of inspiration it was then.' So wrote a listener to

This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project – to explain the opposition to the excessively scienti

Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, vi

'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 fascinat

Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful

The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in

The Sense of Reality was the last new collection of essays published by Isaiah Berlin in his lifetime. All informed by Berlin's lifelong fascination w

Includes essays that presents the sweep of author's contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positi

This first volume of letters inaugurates a keenly awaited edition of Berlin's letters. Berlin's life was enormously worth living, both for himself and

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's class

Scrutinising the leading politicians of the day, including Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, this book draws illuminating sketches of public figures, no

The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal ImpressionsWinston Churchill, Franklin D.