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 173
... began its life as a party game . Just before the war , Lord Oxford - a hereditary Catholic peer then studying classics at Balliol told Isaiah that he had come across a line from the Greek poet Archilochus.1 It had all the elegance and ...
... began its life as a party game . Just before the war , Lord Oxford - a hereditary Catholic peer then studying classics at Balliol told Isaiah that he had come across a line from the Greek poet Archilochus.1 It had all the elegance and ...
Page 232
... began the harassment that contributed to his early death in 1960 , Isaiah felt his own caution had been vindicated . In 1958 Dimitry Shostakovich came to Oxford to receive an honorary degree , along with the French composer Francis ...
... began the harassment that contributed to his early death in 1960 , Isaiah felt his own caution had been vindicated . In 1958 Dimitry Shostakovich came to Oxford to receive an honorary degree , along with the French composer Francis ...
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... began to tilt the balance of his reputation . It was apparent to most critics that he was a major philosophical thinker , whose combination of historical , moral and political enquiry made him sui generis . There was no one , certainly ...
... began to tilt the balance of his reputation . It was apparent to most critics that he was a major philosophical thinker , whose combination of historical , moral and political enquiry made him sui generis . There was no one , certainly ...
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