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Mit diesem Buch wird eine Neuübersetzung der vor 50 Jahren erschienenen, richtungsweisenden Biografie von Karl Marx vorgelegt. Isaiah Berlins Biografie ist eine hellsichtige bis in die feinsten Verästelung vordringende Einführung in das Denken von Karl Marx als Theoretiker und sozialistischer Revolutionär. Sie beleuchtet sowohl seine Person und seine Persönlichkeit als auch den sozialen und historischen Kontext, in den Marx hineingeboren wurde, in dem er aufwuchs und der seine Entwicklung als Philosoph beeinflusste.

Scrutinising the leading politicians of the day, including Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, this book draws illuminating sketches of public figures, notably contrasting the personas of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrey Sakharov.

Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.

In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford;At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four Essays on Liberty - the key texts of his liberal pluralism - and the essays later included in Vico and Herder.

Takes up the story of the author when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. This title charts years of academic frustration and self-doubt, the intellectual explosion when he moves from philosophy to the history of ideas, his growing national fame as broadcaster and lecturer.

Isaiah Berlin wurde 1909 in Riga geboren, zog 1915 mit seiner Familie nach Russland und emigrierte 1921 nach England, wo er später in Oxford Philosophie lehrte. Der bekannte und vielfach ausgezeichnete Ideengeschichtler starb 1997. Im Berlin Verlag erschienen bisher Der Magus in Norden (1995), Wirklichkeitssinn. Ideengeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1998), Persönliche Eindrücke (2001) sowie Die Wurzeln der Romantik (2004).

The collection of personal letters showcases the life and intellectual development of Isaiah Berlin, highlighting his journey from a young pupil to a prominent thinker. It captures his experiences at Oxford, his move to the U.S. during World War II, and his return to Britain in 1946. The letters reveal his burgeoning intellectual abilities and zest for life, providing a personal glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's most significant philosophical figures.

Mit Die Wurzeln der Romantik erscheint nun endlich posthum Berlins berühmte Vorlesungsreihe aus dem Jahr 1965, in der er sich einem zentralen Wendepunkt der modernen Geistesgeschichte zuwendet. Die schillernde, ja revolutionäre Bewegung der Romantik stellt in seinen Augen eine radikale „Transformation“ mit bis heute unabsehbaren Folgen dar. Das Aufkommen der romantischen Strömung im späten 18. Jahrhundert deutet Berlin als eine Reaktion auf die Aufklärung. Er hebt die Schlüsselrolle hervor, die hierbei die deutschen Dichter und Denker spielten, und geht insbesondere auf Wirken und Werk von Hamann, Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schelling und Friedrich Schlegel ein. Berlin zufolge setzten die Romantiker eine beispiellose Umwälzung unseres Denkens und Handelns in Gang, indem sie die herkömmliche Auffassung von objektiver Wahrheit zerstörten und die Gültigkeit moralischer Grundsätze anfochten. Dieser Wandel machte sich nicht nur im Geniekult der Kunst bemerkbar. Berlin skizziert, wie die Betonung der Subjektivität auch mitunter so gegensätzliche Phänomene wie Sensibilität, Toleranz und Liberalität auf der einen, Faschismus und Nationalismus auf der anderen Seite hervorbrachte. Geistreich und eloquent weckt Berlin in seinen Wurzeln der Romantik das Interesse an einer der bedeutendsten und folgenreichsten Epochen der europäischen Geistesgeschichte.

Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which 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. schovat popis

Surveys the many attempts to define romanticism, distills its essence, traces its developments from its first stirrings to its apotheosis, and shows how it still permeates our outlook.

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of the best of his essays. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them, so that abstractions are brought alive. His insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of the today.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; the history of socialism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.

Includes essays and excerpts from the works of prominent modern thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Isaiah Berlin among others.

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"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".--Immanuel Kant. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin explores the complex, radical changes that have swept Western society as he proves to be "an activist of the intellect". "A beautifully patterned tapestry of philosophical thought. . . . A history of ideas that possesses all the drama of a novel, all the immediacy of headline news".--"The New York Times".

The four essays are Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century'; Historical Inevitability', which the Economist described as a magnificent assertion of the reality of human freedom, of the role of free choice in history'; Two Concepts of Liberty', a ringing manifesto for pluralism and individual freedom; and John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life'. There is also a long and masterly introduction written specially for this collection, in which the author replies to his critics.

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 intellectual historian’s most remarkable portraits of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, writers and politicians. For this third, enlarged 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.

The theme that links these essays--written over thirty years--is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world'.

"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions--the concepts and categories--that men bring to their existence and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma. This new edition adds a number of previously uncollected pieces that throw further light on Berlin's central philosophical concerns, and a revealing exchange of letters with the editor and Bernard Williams about the genesis of the book.