Liberty

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Isaiah Berlin (, late Professor of Social and Political Theory, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) Edited by Henry Hardy (, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

Liberty

Isaiah Berlin (, late Professor of Social and Political Theory, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford), Edited by Henry Hardy (, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford)

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Oxford University Press
01 June 2002

Philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Human rights

Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important - Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as 'an exhilarating performance - this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be'.

Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has revised the text, incorporating a fifth essay that Berlin himself had wanted to include. He has also added further pieces that bear on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, in an extended preface and in appendices drawn from Berlin's unpublished writings he exhibits some of the biographical sources of Berlin's lifelong preoccupation with liberalism. These additions help us to grasp the nature of Berlin's 'inner citadel', as he called it - the core of personal conviction from which some of his most influential writing sprang.

By: Isaiah Berlin ( late Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford)
Edited by: Edited by Henry Hardy ( Fellow of Wolfson College Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780199249893
ISBN 10: 019924989X
Publication Date: 01 June 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Liberty

`A magnificent and indispensable volume: the best introduction to the most important and enduring of Berlin's ideas.' John Gray `For anyone wishing to have the essence of Berlin's thinking, Liberty is the volume to have.' John Banville, Irish Times `'Liberty not only offers a comprehensive overview of Isaiah Berlin's main topics and ideas, but also enables us to understand the development and relevance of those ideas in the context of his personality.' Steffen Gross, Dialektik `Practically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers - the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison.' Alan Ryan, New Society `These famous essays ... are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth century figures as Herzen and Mill ...' Philip Toynbee, Observer