Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226840964 ISBN 13: 9780226840963

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration gathers tributes, reflections, and commentaries on the great thinker and his philosophy, politics, and life-including contributions from Michael Ignatieff, Leon Wieseltier, Ronald Dworkin, Stephen Spender, and many others.

"Some [essays], like Joseph Brodsky's tribute, are touchingly personal. Others, like G. A. Cohen's 'Isaiah's Marx, and Mine,' mingle personal reminiscences with a more theoretical look at Berlin's ideas. . . . The volume is a fitting tribute to a thinker famed for his erudition, eclecticism, and clarity of style."—Merle Rubin, The Christian Science Monitor

"One of the many merits of this rich and rewarding collection is the sense-very imperfectly conveyed here-it transmits of the tone of Berlin's writings and conversation, of the multiplicity of his interests and the variety of his achievements. . . . The essays testify to the character of Berlin's mind as a luminous prism, in which the cultural traditions of Russia, England and Judaism are marvelously refracted."—John Gray, Times Literary Supplement

"[T]he collection testifies to the learning and profundity of Berlin's thought and, by way both of reminiscence and influence, to the charm and gaity of its expression."—Anthony Quinton, The Times of London

About this title

About the Author

Edna Ullmann-Margalit is an associate professor of education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Avishai Margalit is the Shulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226840964
• ISBN 13: 9780226840963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Ullmann-Margalit Edna, Margalit Avishai