Bücher von Isaiah Berlin

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIsaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored include realism in history; judgement in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of historians being able to recreate a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece.

Isaiah Berlins Buch handelt von Freiheit als Leitbegriff einer Humanität, von der programmatische Zurichtungen des Freiheitsbegriffs in spekulativer wie politischer Absicht doch oft genug abirrten. In Philosophie und Gesellschaftstheorie verfolgt Berlin die negativen (Abwesenheit von Zwang) wie positiven (Möglichkeiten der Wahl) Bestimmungen von Freiheit. Eine klassische Studie zur politischen Ideengeschichte, die nichts von ihrer Aufschlußkraft verloren hat.

Liberty is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has incorporated a fifth essay, as Berlin wished, and added further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together for the first time. He also describes the gestation of the book and throws further biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawnfrom his unpublished writings.

The first volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters.

Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. The Soviet Mind will assume its rightful place among Berlin's works and will prove invaluable for policymakers, students, and those interested in Russian politics, past, present and future.