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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... essay on the theme of freedom . His lifelong hostility towards determinism is here given its first expression . The ... essay defends the real freedom of inner experience from the determinists , and the real freedom of external action in ...
... essay on the theme of freedom . His lifelong hostility towards determinism is here given its first expression . The ... essay defends the real freedom of inner experience from the determinists , and the real freedom of external action in ...
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... essay , ' Lev Tolstoy's Historical Scepticism ' , which Isaiah had published in Oxford Slavonic Papers in 1951. By retitling it ' The Hedgehog and the Fox ' and putting it out for a general readership with additions by Isaiah ...
... essay , ' Lev Tolstoy's Historical Scepticism ' , which Isaiah had published in Oxford Slavonic Papers in 1951. By retitling it ' The Hedgehog and the Fox ' and putting it out for a general readership with additions by Isaiah ...
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... essay on ' The Naïveté of Verdi ' , based on Schiller's distinction between the ' naïve ' and ' sentimental ' artist . A ' naïve ' artist like Verdi was unselfconscious : he was at one with the Italian Risorgimento and all his work ...
... essay on ' The Naïveté of Verdi ' , based on Schiller's distinction between the ' naïve ' and ' sentimental ' artist . A ' naïve ' artist like Verdi was unselfconscious : he was at one with the Italian Risorgimento and all his work ...
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