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The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays  Cover Image Book Book

The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer ; with a foreword by Noel Annan ; introduction by Roger Hausheer.

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 (Author). Hardy, Henry. (Added Author). Hausheer, Roger. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0374237506 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780374237509 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxxvi, 667 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in 1997 by Chatto & Windus Limited, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-644) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations : The concept of scientific history ; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism : 'From hope and fear set free' ; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism : Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas : The Counter-Enlightenment ; The originality of Machiavelli ; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities -- Herder and the Enlightenment -- Russian writers : The hedghog and the fox -- Herzen and his memoirs ; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age : The apotheosis of the romantic will ; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures : Winston Churchill in 1940 ; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Subject: Human beings.
Philosophical anthropology.
History > Philosophy.
Political science > Philosophy.

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Columbia Gorge Community College Library Fiction BERLI 1997 (Text) 39705000078187 New Book Shelf Available -


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