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Isaiah Berlin : a life / Michael Ignatieff.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780140268577
- ISBN: 014026857X
- Physical Description: 356 pages, 16 pages de planches non numérotées : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Penguin Books, 2000.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | « National bestseller ; « A brillant, tender and insighful biography.» The Globe and Mail »--Page de titre. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index. |
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| Subject: | Philosophers > England > Biography. Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997. Philosophes > Angleterre > Biographies. Philosophers. England. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 192 Berli-I | 31681000877902 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Penguin Putnam
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse.The son of a Riga timber merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a historian of Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny.
In this definitive biography, a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject, Michael Ignatieff charts the emergence of a unique liberal temperamentâserene, comic, secular, and unafraidâwhile examining its influence on Berlin's vision of liberalism, which stressed the often tragic nature of political and moral choice.
A masterful work, illuminating, and beautifully written, Isaiah Berlin: A Life is destined to take its place among the great modern biographies.
"Michael Ignatieff has written a brilliant, tender, and insightful biography of this complex, important, and influential thinker."âThe Globe and Mail
- Random House, Inc.
Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Riga merchant and the first Jew elected to a fellowship at All Souls, Oxford, he was a presiding judge of intellectual life on both sides of the Atlantic for sixty years: a historian of the Russian intelligentsia, biographer of Marx, scholar of the Romantic movement, and defender of the liberal idea of freedom against Soviet tyranny. When he died in 1997, he was hailed as the most important liberal philosopher of his time.
But Berlin's life was not only a life of the mind. Present at the crucial events of our age, he was in Washington during World War II and in Moscow at the dawn of the Cold War. From Albert Einstein to Virginia Woolf, from Winston Churchill to Anna Akhmatova, his circle of friends constitute a veritable who's who of 20th century art, politics, and philosophy.
For this definitive biography -- the result of a remarkable ten-year collaboration between biographer and subject -- Michael Ignatieff interviewed Berlin extensively and was granted complete access to his papers, one of the largest archives in Anglo-American cultural history. A magisterial work, illuminating and beautifully written, Isaiah Berlin is destined to take its place among the great modern biographies.
