The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

Berlin, Isaiah

ISBN 10: 0374527172 / ISBN 13: 9780374527174

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to England in 1921. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of New College and of All Souls, and founding president of Wolfson College.

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Titel: The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of...
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good