Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... become a spectator rather than a participant in the circle of academic philosophers and that he was looking ... become a sage . Instead , she thought , he had allowed himself to become a salon conversationalist , an intellectual acrobat ...
... become a spectator rather than a participant in the circle of academic philosophers and that he was looking ... become a sage . Instead , she thought , he had allowed himself to become a salon conversationalist , an intellectual acrobat ...
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... become a ' huge , bitter tragic ruin ' , a man ' all his life wedded to power ' now ' stripped of it most remorselessly'.37 Berlin felt sure that he should not give up Oxford for a career in Palestine . Jewish politics was too sharply ...
... become a ' huge , bitter tragic ruin ' , a man ' all his life wedded to power ' now ' stripped of it most remorselessly'.37 Berlin felt sure that he should not give up Oxford for a career in Palestine . Jewish politics was too sharply ...
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... become worthless in my own eyes . ' 945 This letter was both his most passionate declaration of allegiance and simultaneously a declaration of independence - from Weizmann , from Israel and from Zionism . Over the next three years , as ...
... become worthless in my own eyes . ' 945 This letter was both his most passionate declaration of allegiance and simultaneously a declaration of independence - from Weizmann , from Israel and from Zionism . Over the next three years , as ...
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