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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
This study describes the anthropology of Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), value pluralism’s founding father.
. 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 ...
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.
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.
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 was witness to a century.
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...
This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review.