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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... lecture in 1935 , maintaining with world - weary eloquence , as Berlin reported to Spender , that Europeans were ' too oppressed by our history to be able to act , too debilitated by the burden of the knowledge of the past to do ...
... lecture in 1935 , maintaining with world - weary eloquence , as Berlin reported to Spender , that Europeans were ' too oppressed by our history to be able to act , too debilitated by the burden of the knowledge of the past to do ...
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... lecture platform cost him dread before and gloom afterwards . Lectures always involved compulsive over - preparation , endless refining from sixty pages to thirty , then to ten , and finally to single - headings on a single piece of ...
... lecture platform cost him dread before and gloom afterwards . Lectures always involved compulsive over - preparation , endless refining from sixty pages to thirty , then to ten , and finally to single - headings on a single piece of ...
Page 342
... ( lecture ) , 249 ; ' Fathers and Sons ' ( lecture ) , 256 ; Four Essays on Liberty , 280 ; ' Freedom and its Betrayal ' ( broadcasts ) , 205 , 282 ; The Hedgehog and the Fox , 213 ; ' Historical Inevitability ' , 205-6 , 224 ; ' History ...
... ( lecture ) , 249 ; ' Fathers and Sons ' ( lecture ) , 256 ; Four Essays on Liberty , 280 ; ' Freedom and its Betrayal ' ( broadcasts ) , 205 , 282 ; The Hedgehog and the Fox , 213 ; ' Historical Inevitability ' , 205-6 , 224 ; ' History ...
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