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Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia; there in 1917, in Petrograd, he witnessed both Revolutions - Social Democratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 his family came to England, and he was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of All Souls, a Fellow of New College, Professor of Social and Political Theory and founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. His published work includes Karl Marx, Russian Thinkers, Concepts and Categories, Against the Current, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and its Betrayal, and Liberty and The Soviet Mind. As an exponent of the history of ideas he was awarded the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes; he also received the Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defence of civil liberties. He died in 1997. Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees. He has edited a number of books by Berlin - most recently Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946 - and other authors, and is the composer of Tunes: Collected Musical Juvenilia (2003). He is co-editor (with Jennifer Holmes) of Maurice Bowra's satirical poems on his contemporaries, New Bats in Old Belfries (2005). Joshua L. Cherniss, a graduate of Yale, is completing a doctorate at Oxford, on the development of Isaiah Berlin's political thought. He is currently a graduate student in political theory at Harvard.
An event of major importance... Hitherto, students of Berlin have been like explorers searching for the source of the Nile, but with only a network of streams to go by, not a single river; now they can stand on the shores of their very own Lake Victoria, gazing at the mighty reservoir itself -- Noel Malcolm Sunday Telegraph A dense, demanding, but often exciting book -- Carole Angier Daily Telegraph Indispensable for anyone interested in the history of ideas and the development of liberal thought -- John Gray New York Review of Books A fine introduction to Berlin's thought, and a major addition to the corpus of his work Literary Review
