The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History

Berlin, Isaiah

ISBN 10: 0374525692 / ISBN 13: 9780374525699

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored include realism in history; judgement in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of historians being able to recreate a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Sir Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909 and immigrated to England in 1921. Berlin's achievement as a historian and exponent of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes. He also received the Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defense of civil liberties. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the author of ten other books. Sir Isaiah died in Oxford in November 1997.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and ...
Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good