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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... friends on the left , Berlin supported the republican side in Spain . As he told Shiela Grant Duff , the Spanish cause was the litmus test which told you , infallibly , where your friends stood politically . But he added that it was ...
... friends on the left , Berlin supported the republican side in Spain . As he told Shiela Grant Duff , the Spanish cause was the litmus test which told you , infallibly , where your friends stood politically . But he added that it was ...
Page 217
... friends , male and female , registered the same surprise . He was the least marriageable man they knew . The news that they were to be married , once the divorce was finalised in Paris , filtered down to Isaiah's friends through the ...
... friends , male and female , registered the same surprise . He was the least marriageable man they knew . The news that they were to be married , once the divorce was finalised in Paris , filtered down to Isaiah's friends through the ...
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... friends and admirers produced two Festschrif- ten : one for his seventieth birthday , initiated by Henry Hardy and edited by Alan Ryan , helping to establish his centrality as a philosopher of freedom ; the second for his eightieth ...
... friends and admirers produced two Festschrif- ten : one for his seventieth birthday , initiated by Henry Hardy and edited by Alan Ryan , helping to establish his centrality as a philosopher of freedom ; the second for his eightieth ...
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