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 74
... facts of Nazi persecution were too obvious to be denied.41 When he pointed this out , von Trott's defenders in Oxford ... fact about him . Such was Isaiah's standing in von Trott's eyes , both as a Jew and a friend , that von Trott tried ...
... facts of Nazi persecution were too obvious to be denied.41 When he pointed this out , von Trott's defenders in Oxford ... fact about him . Such was Isaiah's standing in von Trott's eyes , both as a Jew and a friend , that von Trott tried ...
Page 87
... fact nor a deduction of logic . Ayer kept rebuilding the wall against such exceptions , insisting that colour relations , for example , were a matter of fact . But Berlin came to believe that these examples vitiated logical positivism's ...
... fact nor a deduction of logic . Ayer kept rebuilding the wall against such exceptions , insisting that colour relations , for example , were a matter of fact . But Berlin came to believe that these examples vitiated logical positivism's ...
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... fact that as a young university demonstrator in anatomy he had been one of those ' non - dons ' who had not been elected to a college fellowship.28 This did not make him any less ferocious an opponent of the very project that proposed ...
... fact that as a young university demonstrator in anatomy he had been one of those ' non - dons ' who had not been elected to a college fellowship.28 This did not make him any less ferocious an opponent of the very project that proposed ...
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