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Affirming - Letters 1975-1997 (Paperback)
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Affirming - Letters 1975-1997 (Paperback)
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'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, and create, in Oxford's
Wolfson College, an institutional and architectural legacy. In the
period covered by this new volume (1975-97) he consolidates his
intellectual legacy with a series of essay collections. These
generate many requests for clarification from his readers, and
stimulate him to reaffirm and sometimes refine his ideas, throwing
substantive new light on his thought as he grapples with human
issues of enduring importance. Berlin's comments on world affairs,
especially the continuing conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians, and the collapse of Communism, are characteristically
acute. This is also the era of the Northern Ireland Troubles, the
Iranian revolution, the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the Chernobyl
nuclear disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ayatollah Khomeini's
fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the spread of Islamic fundamentalism,
and wars in the Falkland Islands, the Persian Gulf and the Balkans.
Berlin scrutinises the leading politicians of the day, including
Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, and draws illuminating sketches of
public figures, notably contrasting the personas of Alexander
Solzhenitsyn and Andrey Sakharov. He declines a peerage, is awarded
the Agnelli Prize for ethics, campaigns against philistine
architecture in London and Jerusalem, helps run the National
Gallery and Covent Garden, and talks at length to his biographer.
He reflects on the ideas for which he is famous - especially
liberty and pluralism - and there is a generous leavening of the
conversational brilliance for which he is also renowned, as he
corresponds with friends about politics, the academic world, music
and musicians, art and artists, and writers and their work, always
displaying a Shakespearean fascination with the variety of
humankind. Affirming is the crowning achievement both of Berlin's
epistolary life and of the widely acclaimed edition of his letters
whose first volume appeared in 2004.
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