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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... things ; in reality , he was a hedgehog , who knew one big thing . One purpose of this book is to elaborate what this one big thing was . To know one big thing he had to master all the strands within himself . He took three conflicting ...
... things ; in reality , he was a hedgehog , who knew one big thing . One purpose of this book is to elaborate what this one big thing was . To know one big thing he had to master all the strands within himself . He took three conflicting ...
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... thing , to feel one thing more truly than anything else . It would take more than a decade for him to discover what this was . Because his own frivolity and worldliness so often came under attack , a search for a personal intellectual ...
... thing , to feel one thing more truly than anything else . It would take more than a decade for him to discover what this was . Because his own frivolity and worldliness so often came under attack , a search for a personal intellectual ...
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... thing ' that was to order his intellectual life thereafter : the theme of freedom and its betrayal . In 1950 and ... things and that these things were not in conflict . The entire Western agenda of ameliorative reform derived from this ...
... thing ' that was to order his intellectual life thereafter : the theme of freedom and its betrayal . In 1950 and ... things and that these things were not in conflict . The entire Western agenda of ameliorative reform derived from this ...
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