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The Proper Study of Mankind - An Anthology of Essays (Paperback, First): Roger Hausheer The Proper Study of Mankind - An Anthology of Essays (Paperback, First)
Roger Hausheer; Isaiah Berlin
R781 R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now in one volume--"Berlin's most influential essays"
--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Washington Post Book World

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 Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.

Against the Current - Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Isaiah Berlin Against the Current - Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Isaiah Berlin; Edited by Henry Hardy; Introduction by Roger Hausheer; Foreword by Mark Lilla
R646 R590 Discovery Miles 5 900 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom.

In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.

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