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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... called , the game over.24 When the frenetic pace of work and social life brought on one of his periodic collapses and he had to go into a nursing home for a rest , his friend Stuart Hampshire begged him to impose an ' economy of spirit ...
... called , the game over.24 When the frenetic pace of work and social life brought on one of his periodic collapses and he had to go into a nursing home for a rest , his friend Stuart Hampshire begged him to impose an ' economy of spirit ...
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... called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible , therefore , to believe that all human societies were stretched out in a caravan called progress , heading towards the same horizon line . - - - By the 1820s , thanks to the Romantics ...
... called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible , therefore , to believe that all human societies were stretched out in a caravan called progress , heading towards the same horizon line . - - - By the 1820s , thanks to the Romantics ...
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... called Wolfson College.24 Berlin immediately agreed , and he remembered saying , ' If you want your name immortalised , a college will do it better than a hospital . Wolfson College really will be immortal . " 25 By February 1966 Isaac ...
... called Wolfson College.24 Berlin immediately agreed , and he remembered saying , ' If you want your name immortalised , a college will do it better than a hospital . Wolfson College really will be immortal . " 25 By February 1966 Isaac ...
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