Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Second Edition
Brand: Princeton University Press
Categories: Books, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy



Dimensions: 5.25 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0691157498
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780691157498
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Print length: 384 pages
Publication date: November 10, 2013
subtitle: Paperback – November 10, 2013
author: Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy Bernard Williams Alasdair MacIntyre
review: Editorial Reviews Review "Being a man of the liveliest and most ingenious intellect, [Berlin] must wish that reason could do more to transform the human condition radically and quickly; being a man of common sense he knows it cannot." ---Edward Crankshaw, The Observer "He left the moral quality of his voice behind him, in the long tumbling paragraphs and the clauses within clauses of his best essays, and it is to these that we can turn when we need to remind ourselves what intellectual life can be: joyful, free of illusion, and vitally alive." ---Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books Review "In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free." ―Michael Ignatieff From the Back Cover "In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free." --Michael Ignatieff 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 , The Roots of Romanticism , and Against the Current (all Princeton). Henry Hardy , a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication. Read more