Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (eBook)

Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought - Updated Edition

Isaiah Berlin (Autor)

Henry Hardy (Herausgeber)

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2014 | Updated Edition
504 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5281-9 (ISBN)

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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton).

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This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin's inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay "e;Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the period he made his own. Written for a series of lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1952, and heavily revised and expanded by Berlin afterward, the book argues that the political ideas of 1760-1830 are still largely ours, down to the language and metaphors they are expressed in. Berlin provides a vivid account of some of the era's most influential thinkers, including Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Helvetius, Condorcet, Saint-Simon, and Schelling. Written in Berlin's characteristically accessible style, this is his longest single text. Distilling his formative early work and containing much that is not to be found in his famous essays, the book is of great interest both for what it reveals about the continuing influence of Romantic political thinking and for what it shows about the development of Berlin's own influential thought.The book has been carefully prepared by Berlin's longtime editor Henry Hardy, and Joshua L. Cherniss provides an illuminating introduction that sets it in the context of Berlin's life and work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2014
• Einführung: Joshua L. Cherniss
• Vorwort: William Galston
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Age of Enlightenment • Analogy • Atheism • Behaviorism • Brute fact • Calculation • Career • Causality • Certainty • communism • Concept • Conscience • Consciousness • Contradiction • Criticism • de facto • de jure • despotism • economic freedom • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • ethics • Explanation • fallacy • Feeling • Form of life (philosophy) • Good and evil • Herder • Historicism • Human Spirit • hypothesis • idealism • Ideology • Individualism • inductive reasoning • inference • ingredient • introspection • Irrationality • Isaiah Berlin • Jeremy Bentham • Lecture • Legislation • Liberalism • Liberty • Materialism • Moral absolutism • Morality • Natural and legal rights • Natural science • Obedience (human behavior) • obscurantism • obstacle • of education • originality • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of History • Political Freedom • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politics • Positivism • Prediction • prima facie • Princeton University Press • Principle • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • Relativism • Religion • Romanticism • Ruler • Science • Scientific Method • Scientist • self-fulfillment • Self-Interest • Self-realization • skepticism • Slavery • State of nature • Stoicism • Suffering • Suggestion • Symptom • theory • The Philosopher • Thomas Hobbes • Thought • Three Critics of the Enlightenment • Toleration • Two Concepts of Liberty • Utilitarianism • Value theory • Western thought • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5281-1 / 1400852811
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5281-9 / 9781400852819