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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... senses , how do we know anything about the contents of other minds ? Strict empiricism seemed to entrap each perceiver in a ... sense data , or one tiger's skin ? They read Kafka's Metamorphosis together and considered Gregor Samsa's ...
... senses , how do we know anything about the contents of other minds ? Strict empiricism seemed to entrap each perceiver in a ... sense data , or one tiger's skin ? They read Kafka's Metamorphosis together and considered Gregor Samsa's ...
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... sense of his own inner divisions , and while Berlin never explicitly carried his own autobiogra- phy into his intellectual work , it was always at work within , pushing him to stress the potential for tragedy whenever people were forced ...
... sense of his own inner divisions , and while Berlin never explicitly carried his own autobiogra- phy into his intellectual work , it was always at work within , pushing him to stress the potential for tragedy whenever people were forced ...
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... sense that they had the power to enslave men , no less than nature or institutions . From the Russian tradition too came a sense of the essentially admonitory and moral function of the intellectual . From the British side , he took his ...
... sense that they had the power to enslave men , no less than nature or institutions . From the Russian tradition too came a sense of the essentially admonitory and moral function of the intellectual . From the British side , he took his ...
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