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The author discusses in the eight essays in this volume the meaning and significance of utopianism; cultural history; relativism; Fascism; romanticism and nationalism; and explores the conditions which have allowed these ideals to flourish and those which have threatened them.
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"Berlin has restored the history of ideas to its true place as a key to unlock the past and explain the present. His is a notable achievement, and this book sustains it" (Raymond Carr Spectator)
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"To read Isaiah Berlin is above all to listening to a voice, effervescent, quizzical, often self-mocking, but always full of gaiety and amusement" (John Dunn Times Literary Supplement)
"As a historian of ideas, he has no equal; and what he has to say is expressed in prose of exceptional lucidity and grace" (Anthony Storr Independent)
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"The truest and the most moving of all interpretations of life that my own generation made" (Noel Annan)
"To read Isaiah Berlin is above all to listening to a voice, effervescent, quizzical, often self-mocking, but always full of gaiety and amusement" (John Dunn Times Literary Supplement)
"As a historian of ideas, he has no equal; and what he has to say is expressed in prose of exceptional lucidity and grace" (Anthony Storr Independent)
'Berlin's supreme gift is his capacity to enter the minds of the thinkers who have ushered in the great sea changes of the Western mind. He has restored the history of ideas to its true place as a key to unlock the past and explain the present. His is a n
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0712606165
- ISBN 13 9780712606165
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- Number of pages288
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