Liberty
Incorporating 'Four Essays on Liberty'
(Sprache: Englisch)
Liberty is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has incorporated a fifth essay, as Berlin wished, and added further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements...
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Liberty is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has incorporated a fifth essay, as Berlin wished, and added further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together for the first time. He also describes the gestation of the book and throws further biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawnfrom his unpublished writings.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Liberty “
- The Editor's Tale
- Five Essays on Liberty
- Introduction
- Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
- Historical Inevitability
- Two Concepts of Liberty
- John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life
- From Hope and Fear Set Free
- Other Writings on Liberty
- Liberty
- The Birth of Greek Individualism
- Final Retrospect
- Autobiographical Appendices
- The Purpose Justifies the Ways
- A Letter to George Kennan
- Notes on Prejudice
- Berlin and his Critics by Ian Harris
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls, New College and Professor of Social and Political Theory and founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. He died in 1997.Henry Hardy (ed) is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and is one of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees. He has edited several other books by Berlin, and is currently preparing his letters and his remaining unpublished writings for publication.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Isaiah Berlin
- 2002, 416 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Henry Hardy
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019924989X
- ISBN-13: 9780199249893
Sprache:
Englisch
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'A magnificent and indispensable volume: the best introduction to the most important and enduring of Berlin's ideas.' John Gray
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