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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... Oxford as a whole was on the defensive in the egalitarian ethos of the times . Isaiah was frankly exasperated , as he confessed to a friend : It is impossible to convey in America the full degree of prejudice against Oxford and ...
... Oxford as a whole was on the defensive in the egalitarian ethos of the times . Isaiah was frankly exasperated , as he confessed to a friend : It is impossible to convey in America the full degree of prejudice against Oxford and ...
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... Oxford . By the mid - 1960s there was a danger that Oxford might decline into the Salamanca of English intellectual life , bypassed like the old Spanish medieval university.55 Wolfson was part of a larger process of renewal , symbolised ...
... Oxford . By the mid - 1960s there was a danger that Oxford might decline into the Salamanca of English intellectual life , bypassed like the old Spanish medieval university.55 Wolfson was part of a larger process of renewal , symbolised ...
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... Oxford : 1938 by - election , 72 Oxford and Asquith , Julian Edward George Asquith , 2nd Earl of , 173 , 178 Oxford Outlook ( magazine ) , 48 , 55 Oxford Slavonic Papers , 213 Oxford University : IB studies at , 42 , 44-53 , 57-8 ...
... Oxford : 1938 by - election , 72 Oxford and Asquith , Julian Edward George Asquith , 2nd Earl of , 173 , 178 Oxford Outlook ( magazine ) , 48 , 55 Oxford Slavonic Papers , 213 Oxford University : IB studies at , 42 , 44-53 , 57-8 ...
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