num_pages: 678
description: Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of the best of his essays. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them, so that abstractions are brought alive. His insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of the today.
language: English
title: The Proper Study of Mankind
titlecomplete: The Proper Study of Mankind
genres: Biography, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, European History, Nonfiction, Essays, World History, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 711
publisher: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy