Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration
Hardback Published on: 01/06/1991
Price: £33.50
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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*
Publisher information
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN: 9780226840963
- Number of pages: 229
- Dimensions: 250 x 200 x 25 mm
- Weight: 566g
- Languages: English
