Umfang:
ca 330 S.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
128068044X
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9781280680441
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9781137015723
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Inhalt:
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism.
Inhalt:
This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Archives; Introduction: Explaining the Liberal Predicament; Legacy or Ambivalence?; Intellectual Biography and its Discontents; Part I: The Importance of Being Witty; 1 A Young Boy from Riga; "Heredity is a queer and wanton force"; Negotiating Borders; 2 Becoming a Russian-Jew; The Politics of Anglicization; Freedom: Stoic or Economist?; Monsieur un rien; 3 The Realist Appeal; Fitting into the Oxford Texture; Joining Ayer's Crusade; First Encounters with Positive Freedom
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Part II: The Pink Liberal4 Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes; A Sense of Impending Doom; Jewish Normalization; 5 "I Never Don't Moralize"; Isaiah's Sentimental Journey; Spain, the Ideological "Farbekenner"; 6 Karl Marx; "Closeness-to-Reality" as a Yardstick; The Counter-attack; Part III: The Anticosmopolitan Pluralist; 7 Collisions; Two Faces of Appeasement; Wartime Assignments; 8 On Moses and Joshua; All Souls in Washington; Defending Albion; "There are moments when silence is shameful"; 9 Shifting Horizons; Between Weizmann and Churchill; From "Ionian Fallacy" to Totalitarian Monism
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Freedom as an Opportunity ConceptConclusion: "This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away"; Returning to the Philosophical Reservoir; Berlin's Philosophical Anthropology; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780230110700
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1280680032
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137015716
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Isaiah Berlin : The Journey of a Jewish Liberal
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
URN:
10.1057/9781137015723
URL:
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