Isaiah Berlin

The Power of Ideas

Second Edition
Herausgeber: Hardy, Henry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Power of Ideas . . . captures, in crystalline fashion, not just the power of ideas in history but the utility of Berlin's own ideas in understanding what is happening today in the world."--Strobe Talbott, author of At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780691157603
• ISBN-10: 069115760X
• Artikelnr.: 38051498

Autorenporträt

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, and Against the Current (all Princeton). Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.

Rezensionen

Each of these essays fulfils Raymond Carver's criterion for the short story: to leave the reader's body temperature a degree higher or lower than when the book was opened Nicholas Fearn Independent on Sunday