Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Dimensions: 5.54 x 1.37 x 8.72 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0691158440
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691158444
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Print length: 504 pages
Publication date: May 25, 2014
subtitle: Paperback – May 25, 2014
author: Visit Amazon's Isaiah Berlin Page search results Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy Joshua L. Cherniss William Galston
review: Editorial Reviews Review "Indispensable for anyone interested in the history of ideas and the development of liberal thought, it contains most of the central themes of Berlin's work, together with some of its recurring ambiguities." ---John Gray, New York Review of Books "A fine introduction to Berlin's thought, and a major addition to the corpus of his work." ---Anthony Grayling, Literary Review "In this volume, we have one of the most central sources for much of Berlin's thought. What makes Berlin such a compelling historian, and one of the very few of whom it will always be said that he is a pleasure to read, was the way that he got under the skin of people whose opinions he found, after considered thought, abhorrent. His ideas are still worth debating today, and for the foreseeable future." ---Nicholas Lezard, Guardian "An event of major importance. . . . Hitherto, students of Berlin have been like explorers searching for the source of the Nile, but with only a network of streams to go by, not a single river; now they can stand on the shores of their very own Lake Victoria, gazing at the mighty reservoir itself." ---Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph "[ Political Ideas in the Romantic Age ] contains, in embryo, the main ideas that were to dominate [Berlin's] thought." ---Raymond Carr, Spectator "An absorbing and impressive new book . . . [that] says that we still live off the intellectual capital produced by the great thinkers of the romantic age, roughly 1760 to 1830. We think as they thought. We speak as they spoke." ---Robert Fulford, National Post "Berlin's text is substantially rich and essential for understanding the foundations of his early intellectual encounters with the minds of the Enlightenment and the Romantic age." ― Choice "[This book] is worth a look for anyone interested in a kind of original formulation of Berlin's ideas, but it also provides a new path into a great mind for those who are not yet familiar with him." ---Brandon Turner, Perspectives on Political Science "Those already interested in Berlin's scholarship will find the origins here of his broader contributions to the 'history of ideas' while at his intellectual peak." ---Ann Frank Wake, Historian "At a time when the recrudescence of romantic themes has accompanied numerous new political foundings in the post-Soviet era, and in the turmoil and realignments in the Middle East and Africa, there is a refreshing clarity in this work, and a robust comprehensiveness to his commentary on romanticist ideas--romanticism insinuated exalted, but usually volatile, new ideas in old containers. Its beguiling grandeur obscured its dangers. Berlin offers incisively critical assessments of its leading thinkers." ---Peter Emberley, International Political Science Review Review " Political Ideas in the Romantic Age makes an intriguing and provocative contribution to the history of ideas, and also to the study of Berlin's own thought. The ideas Berlin examines are intrinsically interesting and hugely influential. The book integrates Berlin's analysis of liberty with his reading of the debate between the Enlightenment and the counter-Enlightenment to an extent not found in his other works. And the editing is as meticulous as anything done by Henry Hardy, who is the best possible editor of any text by Berlin." ―George Crowder, Flinders University, Australia, author of Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism From the Back Cover " Political Ideas in the Romantic Age makes an intriguing and provocative contribution to the history of ideas, and also to the study of Berlin's own thought. The ideas Berlin examines are intrinsically interesting and hugely influential. The book integrates Berlin's analysis of liberty with his reading of the debate between the Enlightenment and the counter-Enlightenment to an extent not found in his other works. And the editing is as meticulous as anything done by Henry Hardy, who is the best possible editor of any text by Berlin." --George Crowder, Flinders University, Australia, author of Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism About the Author Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox , The Crooked Timber of Humanity , and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton). Read more