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This collection presents the correspondence of Isaiah Berlin, showcasing his intellectual journey and personal reflections. The letters reveal his thoughts on philosophy, politics, and culture, offering insights into his relationships with prominent figures of his time. Readers will discover Berlin's wit, charm, and the evolution of his ideas, making it a significant contribution to understanding his legacy and the context in which he wrote.

Scrutinising the leading politicians of the day, including Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev, this book draws illuminating sketches of public figures, notably contrasting the personas of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrey Sakharov.

Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. This title presents Berlin's essays on these celebrated and captivating intellectual portraits: Vico, Hamann, and Herder.

This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their views.

In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin creates Wolfson College, Oxford;At the same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including Four Essays on Liberty - the key texts of his liberal pluralism - and the essays later included in Vico and Herder.

Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.

Tells the biography of Karl Marx who has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more direct, deliberate, and powerful influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. This book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context.

Takes up the story of the author when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. This title charts years of academic frustration and self-doubt, the intellectual explosion when he moves from philosophy to the history of ideas, his growing national fame as broadcaster and lecturer.

Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St.