Isaiah Berlin And His Philosophical Contemporaries

Author : Johnny Lyons
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030731782
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries written by Johnny Lyons and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. Isaiah Berlin believed that a recognition of pluralism is vital to a free, decent and civilised society. By looking below at the often neglected foundations of Berlin’s celebrated account of moral pluralism, Lyons reveals the more philosophically profound aspects of his undogmatic and humanistic liberal vision. He achieves this by comparing Berlin’s core ideas with those of several of his most distinguished philosophical contemporaries, an exercise which yields not only a deeper grasp of Berlin and several major twentieth-century thinkers, principally A. J. Ayer, J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, Bernard Williams and Quentin Skinner, but, more broadly, a keener appreciation of the power of history and philosophy to help us make sense of our predicament.

Author : Johnny Lyons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350121452
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin written by Johnny Lyons and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to philosophy in favour of the history of ideas. In The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons shows that Berlin's approach to intellectual history amounted to the pursuit of philosophy by other means, creating a more original and fruitful engagement with his lifelong subject. By recasting Berlin as a philosopher who took humanity and history seriously, Lyons reveals the underlying unity of his wide-ranging and disparate ideas and throws into sharp relief the enduring moral charm of his outlook. Lyons emphasises aspects of Berlin's thinking that have largely been neglected. These include his recognition of historical contingency and of the importance of truth in human affairs, his scepticism about the so-called implications of determinism for our everyday understanding of freedom, and his deeper reasons for thinking that negative liberty should be valued. This introduction to Berlin's thought, and particularly its examination of these mainly overlooked elements of his outlook, reveals a new Berlin, one with surprising and urgent contemporary relevance to the debates that continue to dominate philosophy, politics and intellectual history today.

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805063004
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin written by Michael Ignatieff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the landmark biography of the preeminent liberal thinker of our time, from celebrated social critic Michael Ignatieff. of photos.

Author : Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199673268
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind and Its Time written by Joshua L. Cherniss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of Isaiah Berlin: historian, philosopher, and political theorist. Situates his evolving ideas in the context of British society and world politics. Offers a new interpretation of Berlin's influential writings on liberty and his debts to philosophy, and makes clear his relationship to the political debates of his times.

Author : L. W. B. Brockliss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198783930
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment explores the development of Berlin's conception of the Enlightenment, noting its indebtedness to a specific German intellectual tradition. The book examines his comments on individual writers, arguing that some assigned to the Counter-Enlightenment have closer affinities to the Enlightenment than he recognized.

Author : Joshua L. Cherniss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107138507
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin written by Joshua L. Cherniss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaiah Berlin remains one of the seminal political philosophers of the twentieth century. This book explains his enduring relevance as we face the challenges of the twenty-first.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496937
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power Of Ideas written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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. The nineteen essays collected here show Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid: these short, introductory pieces provide the perfect starting point for the reader new to his work. Their linking theme is the crucial social and political role of ideas, and of their progenitors. The subjects vary widely - from philosophy to education, from Russia to Israel, from Marxism to romanticism - and the appositeness of Heine's warning is exemplified on a broad front. The contents include Berlin's last essay - a retrospective autobiographical survey and the classic statement of his Zionist views. As a whole the book exhibits the full range of his expertise, and demonstrates the enormously engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas.

Author : Isaiah Berlin
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Concepts and Categories written by Isaiah Berlin and published by Chatto & Windus. This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy and reflects his lifelong interest in political theory and the history of ideas.

Author : Kei Hiruta
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691226121
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin written by Kei Hiruta and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers—and the lessons their disagreements continue to offer Two of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) fundamentally disagreed on central issues in politics, history and philosophy. In spite of their overlapping lives and experiences as Jewish émigré intellectuals, Berlin disliked Arendt intensely, saying that she represented “everything that I detest most,” while Arendt met Berlin’s hostility with indifference and suspicion. Written in a lively style, and filled with drama, tragedy and passion, Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin tells, for the first time, the full story of the fraught relationship between these towering figures, and shows how their profoundly different views continue to offer important lessons for political thought today. Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, Kei Hiruta traces the Arendt–Berlin conflict, from their first meeting in wartime New York through their widening intellectual chasm during the 1950s, the controversy over Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, their final missed opportunity to engage with each other at a 1967 conference and Berlin’s continuing animosity toward Arendt after her death. Hiruta blends political philosophy and intellectual history to examine key issues that simultaneously connected and divided Arendt and Berlin, including the nature of totalitarianism, evil and the Holocaust, human agency and moral responsibility, Zionism, American democracy, British imperialism and the Hungarian Revolution. But, most of all, Arendt and Berlin disagreed over a question that goes to the heart of the human condition: what does it mean to be free?

Author : Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042019298
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin written by Connie Aarsbergen-Ligtvoet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. "This study describes the anthropology of Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997), value pluralism's founding father. Berlin wants to protect both moral and cultural diversity against monist tendencies but at the same time struggles to avoid moral relativism. This study follows Berlin critically in this dilemma, thereby giving insight into how value pluralism differs from contemporary postmodernist and conventionalist positions."--Jacket.