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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... called the Esplanade , where Crimean veterans sunned themselves and re - lived Inkerman and Sevastopol . Riga was then the capital of Livonia , a province of the Tsarist empire . The Russian imperial presence consisted of a garrison , a ...
... called the Esplanade , where Crimean veterans sunned themselves and re - lived Inkerman and Sevastopol . Riga was then the capital of Livonia , a province of the Tsarist empire . The Russian imperial presence consisted of a garrison , a ...
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... called upon him in Paris in 1950 and they kept in contact thereafter . Aron was liberal , anti - communist , Jewish , sceptical - all these things about him appealed to Isaiah - but he was too intellectually vain to become a close ...
... called upon him in Paris in 1950 and they kept in contact thereafter . Aron was liberal , anti - communist , Jewish , sceptical - all these things about him appealed to Isaiah - but he was too intellectually vain to become a close ...
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... called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible , therefore , to believe that all human societies were stretched out in a caravan called progress , heading towards the same horizon line . - - - By the 1820s , thanks to the Romantics ...
... called its Schwerpunkt . It was unintelligible , therefore , to believe that all human societies were stretched out in a caravan called progress , heading towards the same horizon line . - - - By the 1820s , thanks to the Romantics ...
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