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Product: Personal Impressions
Description: This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes in both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, L. B. Namier, J. L. Austin, Maurice Bowra. With the exception of Roosevelt he met them all, and he knew many of them well.
For this new edition four new portraits have been added, including recollections of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. The volume ends with a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956.
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Product: Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
Description: An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an excellent introduction to Berlin's thought. Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian philosopher, who has taught in Europe and North America. In 2006 he was imprisoned for several months in Iran. He is currently teaching Political Philosophy at Toronto University. 'Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times'. Maurice Bowra 'Berlin never talks down to the interviewer. Conversations here means the minds of the interviewed and interviewer meet on equal terms in language that is transparently clear, informed, witty and entertaining'. Stephen Spender 'He is wise without seeming pompous, witty without seeming trivial, affectionate without seeming sentimental'. Michael Ignatieff 'Isaiah Berlin... has for fifty years in this talkative and quarrelsome city (Oxford) been something special, admired by all and disliked by no-one... a benevolent super-don'. John Bayley
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Product: The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness
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Product: Affirming: Letters 1975-1997
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Product: The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism
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Product: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin
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Product: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
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Product: How to Master Public Speaking: Gain public speaking confidence, defeat public speaking anxiety, and learn 297 tips to public speaking. Master the art ... and rhetoric. (Speak for Success)
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Product: Personal Impressions: Updated Edition
Description: In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt, Berlin met them all, and he knew many of them well. Other figures recalled here include the Zionist Yitzhak Sadeh, the U.S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter, the classicist and wit Maurice Bowra, the philosopher J. L. Austin, and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. For this edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin’s belief that ideas truly live only through people.
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Product: Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism
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Product: Las ideas políticas en la era romántica. Surgimiento e influencia en el pensamiento moderno (Filosofia) (Spanish Edition)
Description: Ensayos surgidos de una serie de conferencias ofrecidas por el autor en 1952 en la Universidad de Pensilvania, donde se revalora la tradición liberal de occidente y en los que es posible encontrar manifestaciones tempranas de la conceptualización berliniana sobre la libertad, su análisis de la filosofía de la historia y su crítica al determinismo intelectual.
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Product: Isaiah Berlin: Una biografía (Spanish Edition)
Description: Isaiah Berlin. Una biografía es una de esas raras biografías en las que la fuerza del personaje está por encima de su propia obra.

Isaiah Berlin nunca quiso escribir su autobiografía -«No me considero un tema de reflexión lo suficientemente importante o interesante»-, dijo en una ocasión. Pero para muchos era justamente lo contrario: no solo era uno de los principales filósofos liberales de este siglo, sino que su propia vida fue una vívida y apasionante crónica de nuestro tiempo.

Michael Ignatieff ha recogido en este libro la primera biografía autorizada de Berlin, fruto de las conversaciones que mantuvieron durante la última década de su vida. Un trabajo de admirable identificación con su protagonista, donde el lector percibe todo el sentido del humor de Berlin y recupera, como viviéndolos, los recuerdos del maestro. Sus encuentros con Virginia Woolf y Wittgenstein, sus momentos de inspiración y de duda, su talento para gozar de la vida.
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Product: The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Description: Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the implications of his thought for political theory, history, and the social sciences, as well as the ethical challenges confronting political actors, and the nature and importance of practical judgment for politics and scholarship. His name and work are inseparable from the revival of political philosophy and the analysis of political extremism and defense of democratic liberalism following World War II. Berlin was primarily an essayist who spoke through commentary on other authors and, while his own commitments and allegiances are clear enough, much in his thought remains controversial. Berlin's work constitutes an unsystematic and incomplete, but nevertheless sweeping and profound, defense of political, ethical, and intellectual humanism in an anti-humanistic age.
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Product: Contra la corriente. Ensayos sobre historia de las ideas (Conmemorativa 70 Aniversario Fce) (Spanish Edition)
Description: La indiscutida eminencia intelectual de Sir Isaiah Berlin hace de este libro antológico una verdadera joya en el panorama del pensamiento histórico de la segunda mitad de nuestro siglo. Contra la corriente es, como pocos en este tiempo, un libro de salud intelectual y de méritos trascendentales.
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Product: The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin
Description: 'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to philosophy in favour of the history of ideas. In The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons shows that Berlin's approach to intellectual history amounted to the pursuit of philosophy by other means, creating a more original and fruitful engagement with his lifelong subject. By recasting Berlin as a philosopher who took humanity and history seriously, Lyons reveals the underlying unity of his wide-ranging and disparate ideas and throws into sharp relief the enduring moral charm of his outlook.
Lyons emphasises aspects of Berlin's thinking that have largely been neglected. These include his recognition of historical contingency and of the importance of truth in human affairs, his scepticism about the so-called implications of determinism for our everyday understanding of freedom, and his deeper reasons for thinking that negative liberty should be valued. This introduction to Berlin's thought, and particularly its examination of these mainly overlooked elements of his outlook, reveals a new Berlin, one with surprising and urgent contemporary relevance to the debates that continue to dominate philosophy, politics and intellectual history today.
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Product: Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought
Description: Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory.
In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since, and few would dispute that he was one of Britain's greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide--as a great conversationalist, intellectual historian, and man of letters. He has been called the century's most inspired reader.
Yet Berlin's contributions to thought--in particular to moral and political philosophy, and to liberal theory--are little understood, and surprisingly neglected by the academic world. In this book, they are shown to be animated by a single, powerful, subversive idea: value-pluralism which affirms the reality of a deep conflict between ultimate human values that reason cannot resolve. Though bracingly clear-headed, humane and realist, Berlin's value-pluralism runs against the dominant Western traditions, secular and religious, which avow an ultimate harmony of values. It supports a highly distinctive restatement of liberalism in Berlin's work--an agnostic liberalism, which is founded not on rational choice but on the radical choices we make when faced with intractable dilemmas. It is this new statement of liberalism, the central subject of John Gray's lively and lucid book, which gives the liberal intellectual tradition a new lease on life, a new source of life, and which comprises Berlin's central and enduring legacy.
In a new introduction, Gray argues that, in a world in which human freedom has spread more slowly than democracy, Berlin's account of liberty and basic decency is more instructive and useful than ever.
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Product: In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure
Description: Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas – especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today.
But who was the man behind such influential views? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work had for most of his life remained largely out of view.
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Product: All Kidding Aside: Magical Mates Book One
Description: Building houses for a pack of orphans might lead one griffin to find his heart’s home.

Victor Eastaughffe knows three things for a fact:
-He does not have a mate.
-He does not like children.
-His duty is to his griffin clan.

When Victor meets Orsen Riggs, a scruffy bear shifter, and little Gus, an orphaned red panda cub, his orderly, structured world becomes messy and chaotic. All the things he once held true suddenly don’t make sense.

Asked to help the Smith pack navigate the difficult world of shifter politics, Victor realizes he might not know himself as well as he thought. Magic is in the air, and it’s making him long for things he never wanted before. But duty comes before all else, even at a price Victor no longer wants to pay.
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Product: El estudio adecuado de la humanidad. Antología de ensayos (Noema) (Spanish Edition)
Description: Esta antología reúne los escritos esenciales de uno de los más grandes pensadores del siglo XX. La reflexión sobre el vínculo entre teoría política e historiografía, el problema del determinismo y la libertad, la relación entre romanticismo y nacionalismo, así como el retrato de los grandes intelectuales rusos. A lo largo de más de 500 páginas los lectores apreciarán la ejemplar lucidez de Isaiah Berlin y su contribución al conocimiento del hombre sobre sí mismo.
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Product: Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity
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Product: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought
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Product: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition
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Product: Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin
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Product: Isaiah Berlin: a life
Description: Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in Riga in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. Biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defer of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny, Berlin was the presiding judge of intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic. When he died in 1997, he was hailed as the most important liberal philosopher of his time. But Berlin's life was not only a life of the mind. From Albert Einstein to Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill to Anna Akhmatova, his circle of friends constitutes a veritable who's who of twentieth-century art, politics, and philosophy. In this definitive work, the result of a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject, Michael Ignatieff charts the emergence of a unique temperament and a singular vision.
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Product: Russian Thinkers (Penguin Classics)
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Product: Four Essays on Liberty
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Product: Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
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Product: The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History
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Product: Self-Reliance
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Product: Maistre: Considerations on France (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Product: Isaiah Berlin: Letters 1928-1946
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