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Affirming: Letters 1975-1997 by Isaiah Berlin
$50.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"IB was one of the great affirmers of our time." (John Banville, New York Review of Books). The title of this final volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters is echoed by John Banville's verdict in his review of its predecessor, Building: Letters 1960-75, which saw Berlin publish some of his most important work ...Show more
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
$52.95 AUD
Category: General
'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy and a ...Show more
Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin
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Category: Literary
The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressions collects the essayist and inte ...Show more
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, GuardianThe fox knows man ...Show more
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, ...Show more
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
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Category: Words & Ideas
'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, ...Show more
The Power of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are alr ...Show more
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy (Introduction by, Editor); Roger Hausheer (Editor, Foreword by); Noël Annan (Foreword by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Essays
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 writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Paste ...Show more
The Sense of Reality Studies in Ideas and Their History by Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy (Editor); Patrick Gardiner (Introduction by)
$37.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIsaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first ...Show more
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