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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin - History - 1991 - 312 pages
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".--Immanuel Kant. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin explores the complex, radical changes that have swept ...
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The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History

Isaiah Berlin - History - 1997 - 307 pages
Berlin's "The Sense of Reality" made available, in the months before the author's death, an important body of previously unknown work by one of the century's leading historians ...
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Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin - Enlightenment - 1976 - 264 pages
In the first section of the book Isaiah Berlin studies the philosophical ideas of Giovanni Battista Vico, a profound and original thinker, who, after being overshadowed by ...
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Isaiah Berlin - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 pages
Princeton is pleased to return to print Isaia Berlin's essays on three uncelebrated thinkers--Vico, Hamann, and Herder--which have been edited by Hardy to introduce this ...
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The Power of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin - Philosophy - 2000 - 260 pages
"The essays collected in this new volume show Isaiah Berlin on his most lucid and accessible form. These shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point ...
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The Roots of Romanticism

Isaiah Berlin - Arts, Modern - 2001 - 194 pages
One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series ...
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