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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays - Softcover

Berlin, Isaiah

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9780374527174: The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
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ISBN 10: 0374527172 ISBN 13: 9780374527174
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000

Synopsis

Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.

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About the Authors

Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to England in 1921. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of New College and of All Souls, and founding president of Wolfson College.

Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Isaiah Berlin's principal editor, and one of his literary trustees. He began editing Berlin in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at Wolfson). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990, and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975-1997, co-edited with Mark Pottle) was published in September 2015 by Chatto.

Roger Hausheer contributed to The Proper Study of Mankind from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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"No one makes more sense of the intellectual chaos of the modern world, no one has more searching perceptions of the need and the limits of human judgment, no one embodies more realistically and intrepidly the hope of human reason."

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0374527172
ISBN 13 
9780374527174
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
704
Editor
Hardy Henry, Hausheer Roger
Rating
  • 4.25 out of 5 stars
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