This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism. ARIE DUBNOV Lecturer in the History Department at Stanford, USA. INDICE: Explaining the Liberal Predicament - PART I: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WITTY - A Young Boy from Riga - Becoming a Russian-Jew - The Realist Appeal- PART II: THE PINK LIBERAL - Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes - 'I Never Don't Moralize' - Karl Marx - PART III: THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN PLURALIST - Collisions -On Moses and Joshua - Shifting Horizons - 'This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11070-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés