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The Power of Ideas : Second Edition /

The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are...

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Main Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 (Author)
Other Authors: Hardy, Henry (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role--past, present and future--of ideas, and of their progenitors. A ric.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781400848843