num_pages: 298
description: Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.
language: English
title: The Sense of Reality
titlecomplete: The Sense of Reality
genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, History
ratings_count: 143
publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux