Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
Brand: Oxford University Press
Categories: Books, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Social Sciences



Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.26 x 0.85 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019924989X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print length: 416 pages
Publication date: May 23, 2002
ISBN-13: 978-0199249893
Edition: 2nd
subtitle: 2nd Edition
author: Isaiah Berlin Visit Amazon's Henry Hardy Page search results Henry Hardy
review: Editorial Reviews Review 'For anyone wishing to have the essence of Berlin's thinking, Liberty is the volume to have.' John Banville, Irish Times 'Liberty not only offers a comprehensive overview of Isaiah Berlin's main topics and ideas, but also enables us to understand the development and relevance of those ideas in the context of his personality.' Steffen Gross, Dialektik Reviews of Four Essays of Liberty `Practically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers - the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison.' Alan Ryan, New Society `These famous essays ... are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth century figures as Herzen and Mill ...' Philip Toynbee, Observer About the Author Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls and New College, 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 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 He has edited several other books by Berlin, and is currently preparing his letters and his remaining unpublished writings for publication.