Description
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, The Hedgehog and the Fox; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/02/2000
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 2.10d
ISBN13: 9780374527174
ISBN10: 0374527172
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys | Modern
- Literary Collections | Essays
About the Author
Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to England in 1921. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of New College and of All Souls, and founding president of Wolfson College.