Liberty Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty |
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Author:
| Berlin, Isaiah |
Editor:
| Hardy, Henry |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-924989-3 |
Publication Date: | May 2002 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a classic work on liberalism that Irving Howe described as "an exhilarating performance--this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be." This new edition includes added essays that bear on the same topic, so that all of Berlin's principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, an extended preface and...
More Descriptionliberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a classic work on liberalism that Irving Howe described as "an exhilarating performance--this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be." This new edition includes added essays that bear on the same topic, so that all of Berlin's principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, an extended preface and appendices drawn from Berlin's unpublished writings highlight some of the biographical sources of Berlin's lifelong preoccupation with liberalism.