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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... writing a poem denouncing Stalin . Oxford undergraduates on the left looked eastwards for an alternative to slump and ... write about Marx , therefore , was to join the swim of the major ideological current of his age and to take the ...
... writing a poem denouncing Stalin . Oxford undergraduates on the left looked eastwards for an alternative to slump and ... write about Marx , therefore , was to join the swim of the major ideological current of his age and to take the ...
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... writer embodied the liberal's ' negative capabil- ity ' , his capacity to act and make commitments despite an empathy that ... write the Marx biography but , as he wrote to a friend , he found it torture . " He 31 - found it difficult to ...
... writer embodied the liberal's ' negative capabil- ity ' , his capacity to act and make commitments despite an empathy that ... write the Marx biography but , as he wrote to a friend , he found it torture . " He 31 - found it difficult to ...
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... writer Isaac Babel , the theatre director Meyerhold , the critic D.S. Mirsky and numberless others . By the time the ... write , those who had survived were like Giotto's frescos of Jonah in the jaws of Leviathan , half - swallowed by ...
... writer Isaac Babel , the theatre director Meyerhold , the critic D.S. Mirsky and numberless others . By the time the ... write , those who had survived were like Giotto's frescos of Jonah in the jaws of Leviathan , half - swallowed by ...
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