The Power of Ideas, edited by Henry Hardy

BERLIN, Isaiah

ISBN 10: 0701168714 / ISBN 13: 9780701168711

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Power of Ideas, edited by Henry Hardy
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701168714
• ISBN 13: 9780701168711
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edn.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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  • Philosophy: Christian

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Synopsis

The Power of Ideas shows Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are aleady familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The linking theme, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role - past present and future - of ideas, and of their progenitors. Among the contents are 'My Intellectual Path' Berlin's last essay, a retrospective authobiographical survey of his main preoccupations' and Jewish Slavery and Emancipation', the classic statement of his Zionist views, which his readers have long wanted to see reprinted. The book exhibits the full range of his enormously wide expertise, and demonstrates the striking and enormously engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas.

From the Back Cover

"The Power of Ideas ... captures, in crystalline fashion, not just the power of ideas in history but the utility of Berlin's own ideas in understanding what is happening today in the world."--Strobe Talbott, author of At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War