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The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer ; with a foreword by Noel Annan ; and an introduction by Roger Hausheer.

by Berlin, Isaiah, Sir.

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Chatto & Windus, 1997.

Berlin, Isaiah, Sir.

Civilization -- Philosophy

History -- Philosophy

Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century

Civilization, Modern -- 20th century

History, Modern -- 20th century

xxxvi, 667 p. ; 25 cm.

The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations. The concept of scientific history; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism. 'From hope and fear set free'; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism. Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas. The counter-enlightenment; The originality of Machiavelli; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities; Herder and the enlightenment -- Russian writers. The hedgehog and the fox; Herzen and his memoirs; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age. The apotheosis of the romantic will; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures. Winston Churchill in 1940; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Includes concise bibliography of Berlin's writings (p. [638]-643).

Hausheer, Roger

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Selections. 1997.

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