Tag: Liberty

Books

“A Letter on Human Nature”

– “A Letter on Human Nature” (1986), letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New York Review of Books, 23 September, 26, 2004.  
Excerpt: “First, then, let me talk about the difficult question of “human nature.” Do I believe in a fixed and unalterable human nature?—you rightly quote me as saying that I do… 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… More

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin

– Crowder, George, and Henry Hardy (eds). The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture,… More

“Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker”

– Fraser, Nick. “Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker.” The Independent, May 2009.
Excerpt: “Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He’ll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he… More

Essays

“A Letter on Human Nature”

– “A Letter on Human Nature” (1986), letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New York Review of Books, 23 September, 26, 2004.  
Excerpt: “First, then, let me talk about the difficult question of “human nature.” Do I believe in a fixed and unalterable human nature?—you rightly quote me as saying that I do… 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… More

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin

– Crowder, George, and Henry Hardy (eds). The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture,… More

“Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker”

– Fraser, Nick. “Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker.” The Independent, May 2009.
Excerpt: “Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He’ll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he… More

Commentary

“A Letter on Human Nature”

– “A Letter on Human Nature” (1986), letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New York Review of Books, 23 September, 26, 2004.  
Excerpt: “First, then, let me talk about the difficult question of “human nature.” Do I believe in a fixed and unalterable human nature?—you rightly quote me as saying that I do… 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… More

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin

– Crowder, George, and Henry Hardy (eds). The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture,… More

“Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker”

– Fraser, Nick. “Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker.” The Independent, May 2009.
Excerpt: “Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He’ll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he… More

Multimedia

“A Letter on Human Nature”

– “A Letter on Human Nature” (1986), letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New York Review of Books, 23 September, 26, 2004.  
Excerpt: “First, then, let me talk about the difficult question of “human nature.” Do I believe in a fixed and unalterable human nature?—you rightly quote me as saying that I do… 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… More

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin

– Crowder, George, and Henry Hardy (eds). The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture,… More

“Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker”

– Fraser, Nick. “Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker.” The Independent, May 2009.
Excerpt: “Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He’ll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he… More

Teaching

“A Letter on Human Nature”

– “A Letter on Human Nature” (1986), letter to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska, New York Review of Books, 23 September, 26, 2004.  
Excerpt: “First, then, let me talk about the difficult question of “human nature.” Do I believe in a fixed and unalterable human nature?—you rightly quote me as saying that I do… 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… More

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin

– Crowder, George, and Henry Hardy (eds). The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.  
From the Publisher: “Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture,… More

“Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker”

– Fraser, Nick. “Isaiah Berlin: The Free Thinker.” The Independent, May 2009.
Excerpt: “Next week the faithful will assemble to mark the centenary of the philosopher Isaiah Berlin. He’ll be celebrated in Jerusalem, which he loved, in Harvard where he… More