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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Page 81
... Ayer , universally known as Freddie.13 They ought to have been close and they maintained a wary , competitive friendship for fifty years but everything they had in common actually divided them . There was the matter of Jewishness ...
... Ayer , universally known as Freddie.13 They ought to have been close and they maintained a wary , competitive friendship for fifty years but everything they had in common actually divided them . There was the matter of Jewishness ...
Page 82
... Ayer was intoxicated by these doctrines : he was an iconoclast by temperament , and the Vienna ideas applied the axe to the philosophy he had been taught . In a letter from Vienna to Isaiah , he conveyed his sense of intellectual ...
... Ayer was intoxicated by these doctrines : he was an iconoclast by temperament , and the Vienna ideas applied the axe to the philosophy he had been taught . In a letter from Vienna to Isaiah , he conveyed his sense of intellectual ...
Page 85
... Ayer and the emerging sceptical language philosophy of Austin . Isaiah conceived the idea of regular philosophical discussion , involving the two of them . Between the spring of 1937 and the summer of 1939 , the ' brethren ' met on ...
... Ayer and the emerging sceptical language philosophy of Austin . Isaiah conceived the idea of regular philosophical discussion , involving the two of them . Between the spring of 1937 and the summer of 1939 , the ' brethren ' met on ...
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