The proper study of mankind
Subtitle: an anthology of essays
By: Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer ; with a foreword by Noel Annan ; introduction by Roger Hausheer.
Contributors: Hardy, Henry.; Hausheer, Roger.
Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 667
Subjects: Human beings; Philosophical anthropology; History -- Philosophy; Political science -- Philosophy
Description: Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated work, which has appeared in various books (many of them out of print) over the past half century.

Here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of important contemporaries - from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his seminal essays on liberty and his exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to science; and his brilliant studies of intellectual originals such as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [639]-644) and index.
"First published in 1997 by Chatto & Windus Limited, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.