Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-07 Pages: 248 Language: English Publisher: Princeton University Press Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921. at the age of eleven. Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga. Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British intellectual life. He has remained its commanding presence ever since. and few would dispute that he was one of Britains greatest thinkers. His reputation extends worldwide - as a great conversationalist. intellectual historian. and man of letters. He has been called the centurys most inspired reader.Yet Berlins contributions to thought- -in particular to moral and political philosophy. and to liberal theory - are little understood. ...