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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... Turgenev , the supreme liberal artist , who became a lifelong mirror . Berlin confessed to Shiela Grant Duff that , after reading Turgenev's On the Eve , he felt as if his inner nature had been found out , especially ' his callow and ...
... Turgenev , the supreme liberal artist , who became a lifelong mirror . Berlin confessed to Shiela Grant Duff that , after reading Turgenev's On the Eve , he felt as if his inner nature had been found out , especially ' his callow and ...
Page 159
... Turgenev . These differences in moral taste were of course also differences of circumstance . Turgenev's delicacy struck an easy chord in Isaiah's Oxford , but it is hard to imagine how it could find an audience in Stalin's Leningrad ...
... Turgenev . These differences in moral taste were of course also differences of circumstance . Turgenev's delicacy struck an easy chord in Isaiah's Oxford , but it is hard to imagine how it could find an audience in Stalin's Leningrad ...
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... Turgenev occasioned a still more intimate encounter with another liberal dilemma : the problem of courage . Turgenev was accused throughout his career of ingratiating himself with the authorities and the revolutionaries alike , and of ...
... Turgenev occasioned a still more intimate encounter with another liberal dilemma : the problem of courage . Turgenev was accused throughout his career of ingratiating himself with the authorities and the revolutionaries alike , and of ...
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