In Search of Isaiah Berlin

A Literary Adventure

Henry Hardy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2019
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-83860-678-7 (ISBN)

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Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas – especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today.

But who was the man behind such influential views? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work had for most of his life remained largely out of view.

Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Isaiah Berlin's principal editor, and one of his literary trustees. He began editing Berlin in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at Wolfson). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990, and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975-1997, co-edited with Mark Pottle) was published in September 2015 by Chatto.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant
1. The Beginning

Making Books
2. A Project is Born
3. Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet
4. Selected Writings
5. An Unremarkable Decade
6. The Crooked Timber of Humanity
7. The Magus of the North
8. The Sense of Reality

Probing Ideas
9. Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature
10. Pluralism and Religion
11. The Moral Core and the Human Horizon

12. The End
13. Epilogue
Appendix: A Posthumous Letter to Berlin

References and Asides
Select Biographical Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	10 b/w in 8pp plates
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 226 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-83860-678-5 / 1838606785
ISBN-13	978-1-83860-678-7 / 9781838606787
Zustand	Neuware