About this title: This posthumous collection is a sound introductory survey of the core of Isaiah Berlin's thought. His overall theme in these essays is the social and political clout of ideas, such as Marxism and Zionism.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2001-12-26
ISBN-13:9780691092768ISBN:0691092761
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780691092768ISBN:0691092761
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Description: 240pp. 8vo, boards. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000. Near-fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Previous owners' stamp on the title page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780691092768ISBN:0691092761
Description: New. "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 In... read more
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Description: "The theme that links the contents of this volume of Berlin's shorter, more introductory pieces is the same as that of three earlier volumes of his longer essays, namely the crucial social and political role-past, present and future-of ideas, and of their progenitors..."-Editor's Preface. Pp.15/240. P/b with illustrated cover. VG. read more
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Edition: Henry Hardy
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), UK
ISBN-13:9780712665544ISBN:0712665544
Description: Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. 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 already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this ... read more
"Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM (6 June 1909 - 5 November 1997) was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He excelled as an essayist, lecturer and conversationalist; and as a brilliant speaker who delivered, rapidly and spontaneously, richly allusive and coherently structured material, whether for a lecture series at Oxford University or as a broadcaster on the BBC Third Program, usually without a script. Many of his essays and lectures were later collected in book form.
In 2000 Henry Hardy edited a collection of his shorter essays titled The Power of Ideas from the following quotation:
Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation. (Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958)
This collection demonstrates both the power and the breadth of Berlin's thought with essays covering topics in the nature and history of philosophy, Russian intellectual history, political philosophy, Zionism, and the history of ideas. Power indeed to both analyze and understand human thought and history. Berlin shares his admiration for the enlightenment while analyzing the meaning of those ideas. It is a book that will lead you to other books, both by Sir Isaiah himself and others. It may spur an interest in the literature of nineteenth century Russia, or encourage you to read Karl Marx's Das Kapital to find out why John Maynard Keynes did not like it. Berlin's writing style is elegant and always readable, even when the most difficult ideas are being discussed. Most of all the essays included in this collection demonstrate the strength of classical liberal thought and the fundamental humaneness of the mind of Sir Isaiah Berlin. I came to this collection with an appreciation for Berlin's thought that was only confirmed and augmented by my reading of this book."
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