The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy

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By Henry Hardy

Isaiah Berlin was once born a century in the past. essentially the most celebrated British thinkers of the 20th century, he used to be a tireless champion of freedom and variety opposed to keep watch over and conformity. His beneficiant, open imaginative and prescient of existence is displayed with particular immediacy in his incredible pen-portraits of contemporaries, own Impressions, during which he sees the purpose of noticeably differing personalities, enters into their unique outlooks, and describes his encounters with them, in arrestingly idiosyncratic prose.

The ebook of Isaiah turns the tables on Berlin, supplying a sequence of non-public impressions of him and his rules via a number those who knew him, or were laid low with his paintings. This multi-faceted testimony enriches and supplementations Michael Ignatieff's celebrated permitted biography. the quantity comprises tributes written while Berlin died, essays in particular commissioned from pals and from scholars of his paintings, and a formerly unpublished family members memoir via Berlin's father, which preserves for his son, and for posterity, the tale of his Hasidic forebears, and of the various kin murdered via the Nazis. the result's a set fundamental either for present fans and in case you are curious to benefit approximately Berlin's certain, compelling appeal.

HENRY HARDY is a Fellow of Wolfson collage, Oxford, and one in every of Isaiah Berlin's Literary Trustees.

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