These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most
concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on
human freedom--views that later found expression in such famous
works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his
lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were
broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation
and confirmed Berlin's reputation as an intellectual who could
speak to the public in an appealing and compelling way. A recording
of only one of the lectures has survived, but Henry Hardy has
recreated them all here from BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated
drafts. Hardy has also added, as an appendix to this new edition, a
revealing text of "Two Concepts" based on Berlin's earliest
surviving drafts, which throws light on some of the issues raised
by the essay. And, in a new foreword, historian Enrique Krauze
traces the origin of Berlin's idea of negative freedom to his
rejection of the notion that the creation of the State of Israel
left Jews with only two choices: to emigrate to Israel or to
renounce Jewish identity.
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