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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... culture in the first half of the twentieth century , a chronicle of Akhmatova's fateful generation . It was probably the first Western account of Stalin's war against Russian culture . On every page there are traces of what she ...
... culture in the first half of the twentieth century , a chronicle of Akhmatova's fateful generation . It was probably the first Western account of Stalin's war against Russian culture . On every page there are traces of what she ...
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... cultures and societies had proven more successful than others . But whether or not Jews were a race , they certainly were a culture and , in his view , cultures could not survive without a religious backbone . The key question ...
... cultures and societies had proven more successful than others . But whether or not Jews were a race , they certainly were a culture and , in his view , cultures could not survive without a religious backbone . The key question ...
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... culture embraced toleration as the recognition of the plurality of truth and value . Added to this , the Romantics introduced the idea that cultural variety was in itself a good thing . Sincerity , authenticity , toleration and variety ...
... culture embraced toleration as the recognition of the plurality of truth and value . Added to this , the Romantics introduced the idea that cultural variety was in itself a good thing . Sincerity , authenticity , toleration and variety ...
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