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The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History

by Isaiah Berlin

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Publisher Comments:

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored include realism in history; judgement in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of historians being able to recreate a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece.

About the Author

Sir Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909 and immigrated to England in 1921. Berlin's achievement as a historian and exponent of ideas earned him the Erasmus, Lippincott, and Agnelli Prizes. He also received the Jerusalem Prize for his lifelong defense of civil liberties. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the author of ten other books. Sir Isaiah died in Oxford in November 1997.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780374525699
Subtitle:
Studies in Ideas and Their History
Editor:
Hardy, Henry
Introduction:
Gardiner, Patrick
Editor:
Hardy, Henry, Jr.
Author:
Berlin, Isaiah
Introduction:
Gardiner, Patrick
Author:
Hardy, Henry
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
History
Subject:
History, modern
Subject:
Philosophy, modern
Subject:
History, Criticism, Surveys
Subject:
Reality
Subject:
History & Surveys - General
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
History -- Philosophy.
Edition Number:
1st paperback ed.
Edition Description:
Pbk
Series Volume:
1177-3
Publication Date:
December 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.64x5.50x.73 in. .88 lbs.

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