Isaiah Berlin

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life
    By Michael Ignatieff

    On IB's role when the CIA's role in Encounter became known , see M. Lasky to IB , 13.4.67 ; IB to S. Spender , 30.5.67 ; also Mel Lasky to Dwight MacDonald , 12.4.67 ; and IB to Melvin Lasky , 18.4.67 , in Josselson Papers , Harry ...

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Value Pluralist and Humanist View of Human Nature and the Meaning of Life
    By Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet

    Charles Taylor describes this situation as “a bomb that was planted in the academy but somehow failed to go off.” The reason that Taylor gives for this is “just because Isaiah said to all and sundry that he had more or less 'emigrated' ...

  • Isaiah Berlin: Liberty, Pluralism and Liberalism
    By George Crowder

    An accessible introduction to the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, this work argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its ...

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Value Pluralist and Humanist View of Human Nature and the Meaning of Life
    By Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet

    This study describes the anthropology of Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), value pluralism’s founding father.

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration
    By Avishai Margalit, Edna Ullmann-Margalit

    . The essays testify to the character of Berlin's mind as a luminous prism, in which the cultural traditions of Russia, England and Judaism are marvelously refracted."—John Gray, Times Literary Supplement "[T]he collection testifies to ...

  • Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought
    By John Gray

    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.

  • Isaiah Berlin
    By John Gray

    A study of the political philosophy of the Russian born thinker explains how Isaiah Berlin came to reject ideological frameworks in favor of a pluralism that acknowledges the inevitable diversity of human values.

  • Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism
    By George Crowder

    An accessible introduction to the ideas of Isaiah Berlin, this work argues that Berlin's critique of the modern enemies of liberty is exciting and powerful, but also that the coherence of his thought is threatened by a tension between its ...

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Life
    By Michael Ignatieff

    Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century.

  • Isaiah Berlin
    By John Gray

    In this critical introduction to the works and ideas of Isaiah Berlin, the author pays special attention to Berlin's political thinking, but brings out the connections between it and Berlin's...

  • Isaiah Berlin
    By Jeffrey Friedman

    This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review.