Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781843838760 |
| ISBN10: | 1843838761 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 368 pages |
| Size: | 232x154x22 mm |
| Weight: | 576 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 20 b/w illus. Illustrations, black & white |
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The Book of Isaiah ? Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Boydell Press
Date of Publication: 19 September 2013
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
This collection of pen-portraits of the renowned public intellectual Isaiah Berlin, published to mark the centenary of his birth, brings him vividly to life from many vantage-points: essential reading for all who seek to understand the full range of his impact.
Long description:
Isaiah Berlin was born a century ago. One of the most celebrated British thinkers of the twentieth century, he was a tireless champion of freedom and diversity against control and conformity. His generous, open vision of life is displayed with special immediacy in his brilliant pen-portraits of contemporaries, Personal Impressions, in which he sees the point of radically differing personalities, enters into their distinctive outlooks, and describes his encounters with them, in arrestingly idiosyncratic prose.
The Book of Isaiah turns the tables on Berlin, offering a series of personal impressions of him and his ideas by a range of people who knew him, or have been affected by his work. This multi-faceted testimony enriches and supplements Michael Ignatieff's celebrated authorised biography. The volume includes tributes written when Berlin died, essays specially commissioned from friends and from students of his work, and a previously unpublished family memoir by Berlin's father, which preserves for his son, and for posterity, the story of his Hasidic forebears, and of the many relatives murdered by the Nazis. The result is a collection indispensable both for existing enthusiasts and for those who are curious to learn about Berlin's unique, compelling appeal.
HENRY HARDY is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and one of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees.
[Includes] first-rate contributions from, among others, the philosopher Bryan Magee; his biographer Michael Ignatieff; and Henry Hardy. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
An impressive cast assembles to pay [Berlin's] genius homage. THE INDEPENDENT
The Book of Isaiah turns the tables on Berlin, offering a series of personal impressions of him and his ideas by a range of people who knew him, or have been affected by his work. This multi-faceted testimony enriches and supplements Michael Ignatieff's celebrated authorised biography. The volume includes tributes written when Berlin died, essays specially commissioned from friends and from students of his work, and a previously unpublished family memoir by Berlin's father, which preserves for his son, and for posterity, the story of his Hasidic forebears, and of the many relatives murdered by the Nazis. The result is a collection indispensable both for existing enthusiasts and for those who are curious to learn about Berlin's unique, compelling appeal.
HENRY HARDY is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and one of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees.
[Includes] first-rate contributions from, among others, the philosopher Bryan Magee; his biographer Michael Ignatieff; and Henry Hardy. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
An impressive cast assembles to pay [Berlin's] genius homage. THE INDEPENDENT
