Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
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.A dazzling display of intellectual pyrotechnics -- Vernon Bogdanor * New Statesman *
As well as being sometimes profoundly wise, these letters are often laugh-out-loud funny -- Brian Lunch * Irish Times *
They delight in flashing the stiletto, these donnish types, and impossible to conceive would be a college in which no academic grown had a dagger sticking out of the backIt is precisely this kind of malice which constitutes a naughty proportion of the book's appeal * Guardian *
Ironic, gossipy, witty, intermittently profound and always intensely human -- Justin Cartwright * Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year *
Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in Petrograd in 1917 Berlin witnessed both Revolutions - Social Democratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 he and his parents emigrated to England, where he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Apart from his war service in New York, Washington, Moscow and Leningrad, he remained at Oxford thereafter - as a Fellow of All Souls, then of New College, as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, and as founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy.
His published work includes Karl Marx, Russian Thinkers, Concepts and Categories, Against the Current, Personal Impressions, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and Its Betrayal, Liberty, The Soviet Mind and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. As an exponent of the history of ideas he was awarded the Erasmus, Lippincott and Agnelli Prizes; he also received the Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defence of civil liberties. He died in 1997.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844138340 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844138348 |
| Title | Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 |
| Author | Isaiah Berlin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 880 |
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