The Sense Of Reality

Studies in Ideas and their History

Isaiah Berlin, Patrick Gardiner, Henry Hardy

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English

Pimlico
28 November 1997

Philosophy; History of Western philosophy; History of ideas

This collection at last makes available an important body of previously unknown work by one of our leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English.

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide- realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.

By: Isaiah Berlin
Introduction by: Patrick Gardiner
Edited by: Henry Hardy
Imprint: Pimlico
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9780712673679
ISBN 10: 0712673679
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 28 November 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Sense Of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History

Astonishingly, this omnium gatherum of essays, addresses, lectures and broadcasts by one of the world's leading historians of ideas, consists of pieces that had never previously been published. Ranging from topics like 'realism in history' and 'judgment in politics' to the Russian notion of artistic commitment and the impossibility of re-creating a bygone epoch, they reveal yet again the huge intellectual power and range of Isaiah Berlin and the sheer quality of a Rolls Royce mind at work (Kirkus UK)