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Loading... The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (original 1997; edition 1998)by Isaiah Berlin
Work InformationThe Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin (1997)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There is not much to really say about this one. It only took me a while because I keep picking up books from the library and putting this on the back burner so to speak. This collection of essays is both inspiring and inspired. It demonstrates quite well the lucidity and power of his thought in a wide range of different things, though he seems to mostly focus on literary subjects. Reading his analysis of Machiavelli's The Prince was quite interesting. Nothing much else really sticks out in my memory, but I feel rather ill and shall cut this short. ( ) no reviews | add a review
'He becomes everyman's guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas' New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankindselects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today. 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. EDITED BY HENRY HARDY AND ROGER HAUSHEER AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDREW MARR No library descriptions found. |
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