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 89
... took his friend to task for writing too vaguely ' about generalised states of mind , the spirit of this and that Zeitgeist ' . " It was all very ' unpositivistic and unrealistic ' , and his history of ideas was being undermined by ...
... took his friend to task for writing too vaguely ' about generalised states of mind , the spirit of this and that Zeitgeist ' . " It was all very ' unpositivistic and unrealistic ' , and his history of ideas was being undermined by ...
Page 99
... took hold of Isaiah , but this was one of them . He took refuge in a friend's suite in the Shoreham Hotel in New York throughout August 1940 , unable to do anything in the dog - day heat , except read Dickens and feel pathetically ...
... took hold of Isaiah , but this was one of them . He took refuge in a friend's suite in the Shoreham Hotel in New York throughout August 1940 , unable to do anything in the dog - day heat , except read Dickens and feel pathetically ...
Page 239
... took on the quality of a royal progress , much to the irritation of Edmund Wilson , who confided to his diary that his old friend was ' behaving more and more like royalty'.62 Other friends also noticed that Isaiah had become a grand ...
... took on the quality of a royal progress , much to the irritation of Edmund Wilson , who confided to his diary that his old friend was ' behaving more and more like royalty'.62 Other friends also noticed that Isaiah had become a grand ...
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