Isaiah Berlin [electronic resource] : The Journey of a Jewish Liberal /
Dubnov, A.author.
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Archives; Introduction: Explaining the Liberal Predicament; Legacy or Ambivalence?; Intellectual Biography and its Discontents; Part I: The Importance of Being Witty; 1 A Young Boy from Riga; "Heredity is a queer and wanton force"; Negotiating Borders; 2 Becoming a Russian-Jew; The Politics of Anglicization; Freedom: Stoic or Economist?; Monsieur un rien; 3 The Realist Appeal; Fitting into the Oxford Texture; Joining Ayer's Crusade; First Encounters with Positive Freedom
Part II: The Pink Liberal4 Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes; A Sense of Impending Doom; Jewish Normalization; 5 "I Never Don't Moralize"; Isaiah's Sentimental Journey; Spain, the Ideological "Farbekenner"; 6 Karl Marx; "Closeness-to-Reality" as a Yardstick; The Counter-attack; Part III: The Anticosmopolitan Pluralist; 7 Collisions; Two Faces of Appeasement; Wartime Assignments; 8 On Moses and Joshua; All Souls in Washington; Defending Albion; "There are moments when silence is shameful"; 9 Shifting Horizons; Between Weizmann and Churchill; From "Ionian Fallacy" to Totalitarian Monism
Freedom as an Opportunity ConceptConclusion: "This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away"; Returning to the Philosophical Reservoir; Berlin's Philosophical Anthropology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009) under title: Between Zionism and liberalism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism.
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
Judaism.
Social history.
History.
Europe-History.
Civilization-History.
Great Britain-History.
Judaism.
Social History.
History, general.
European History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.