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The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism

– The Magus of the North: J.G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism. London: John Murray, 1993; New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994.  
From the Publisher: “J.G. Hamann (1730-88) was a solitary and idiosyncratic thinker who lived a life of poverty and neglect. He was admired by Herder, Goethe, and later by Kierkegaard, and Berlin’s account shows how original Hamann’s… More

Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960

– Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960, Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes (eds.), London: Chatto and Windus, 2009.  
From the Publisher: “”People are my landscape,” Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. This second volume of Berlin’s letters takes up the story when, after war service in… More

Flourishing: Letters 1928–1946

– Flourishing: Letters 1928–1946, Henry Hardy (ed.), London: Chatto and Windus. Published in the USA as Letters 1928–1946, New York: Cambridge University Press. Paperback with UK title, London: Pimlico; Chicago: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2005.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is one of the towering intellectual figures of the 20th century and the focus of growing discussion among those interested in politics and philosophy alike. In this engaging compendium, the man behind the intellectual… More

Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought

– Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought, Henry Hardy (ed.), London: Chatto and Windus; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.  
From the Publisher: “Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the period he made his own. Written for a series of… More

Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

– Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder (1960–65), Henry Hardy (ed.), London: Pimlico; Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2nd ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013 [2000].  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin’s work and reintroduce it to a… More

The Power of Ideas

– The Power of Ideas, Henry Hardy (ed.), London: Chatto and Windus; Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2nd ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013 [2000].  
From the Publisher: “The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the… More

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

– The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer (eds.), London: Chatto and Windus; New York, 1998: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2nd ed., London: Vintage, 2013 [1997].  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s famous essay on Tolstoy,… More

The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History

– The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History, Henry Hardy (ed.), London: Chatto and Windus; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin’s The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century’s leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces… More

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

– The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, Henry Hardy (ed.), London: John Murray. New York: Knopf, 1991; 2nd ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013 [1990]. Vico, de Maistre, Romanticism, Relativism
From the Publisher: ” “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”–Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century–an activist of the intellect who… More
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Lecture on Joseph de Maistre

Isaiah Berlin, from the Woodbridge Lectures, ‘Two Enemies of the Enlightenment’ (Hamann and Maistre), Harkness Theater, Columbia University, October 27, 1965.