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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- The hedgehog and the fox -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: General introduction -- Chapter 1: The nature of Berlin's political philosophy -- A summary of Berlin's political philosophy -- Some objections to treating Berlin as a political philosopher -- Berlin's scepticism about rationalism -- The structure and spirit of the book -- Part 2: Philosophy -- Chapter 2: In the beginning … -- The 'death' of political philosophy -- Berlin's non-reductive view of philosophy -- Chapter 3: Kant's Copernican revolution -- Chapter 4: The humanistic turn -- Chapter 5: Taking history seriously -- Chapter 6: Interlude: Taking stock -- Chapter 7: Philosophy, literature and human understanding -- A tantalizing question -- Part 3: Contingency -- Chapter 8: Philosophy and belief -- The problem stated -- Chapter 9: The logic-choppers -- Chapter 10: The postmodern appropriation -- Chapter 11: The hedgehog's revenge -- Chapter 12: What we are left with -- Chapter 13: Reason, history and liberalism -- Part 4: Freedom -- Chapter 14: Theory versus practice -- Chapter 15: The central problem of freedom -- Knowledge and Freedom -- But does determinism require us to give up everyday freedom? -- Chapter 16: Is belief in determinism liveable? -- Internal and External Perspectives -- Chapter 17: Truth, freedom and value pluralism -- Chapter 18: Reimagining the nature and authority of philosophy -- Part 5: Authenticity -- Chapter 19: Framing the debate -- The sources and nature of romanticism -- Chapter 20: Three romantic thinkers -- Herder -- Kant -- Chapter 21: Smashing the jigsaw -- Chapter 22: The liberalism of romanticism -- Isaiah Berlin's Letters -- Anthology of Isaiah Berlin's Writings -- Dialogues and Interviews.

Intro -- Unique Selling Points -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Aims, Scope and Structure of the Book -- The Sciences and the Humanities -- But Why Should Anyone Care? -- Chapter 2: Berlin and A. J. Ayer on Morality -- The Emotive Theory of Morality -- Berlin's Pluralist Theory of Morality: Part One -- Facts and Values -- Berlin's Pluralist Theory of Morality: Part Two -- Knowledge, Truth and Morals -- Metaethical Judgments and Normative Convictions -- Chapter 3: Berlin and J. L. Austin on Philosophy -- It Depends on What You Mean by … -- The Linguistic Method -- The Implacability of Philosophical Questions -- Thought and Reality -- Philosophy and Human Understanding -- Chapter 4: Berlin and P. F. Strawson on Freedom -- The Silence of Determinism -- Truth and Freedom -- Reason and Freedom -- Living with/Under/Without Illusion -- God, Freedom and Belief -- Back to the Future -- Exact and Inexact Knowledge -- Liberal Freedom and Human Needs -- Chapter 5: Berlin and Quentin Skinner on History -- Plamenatz's Proposal -- Skinner's Sting -- Berlin's Rapprochement -- Philosophy and / or / as History -- A Phoney War or a Genuine Conflict? -- Incommensurable Forms of Life Versus One Pluralist World -- Chapter 6: Berlin and Bernard Williams on Liberalism -- Williams' Historicist Turn -- Thinking for Ourselves -- Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline -- From Pluralism to Liberalism and Back Again or Against Abstract Simplification -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- A Faustian Choice? -- But Does Philosophy Make any Progress? -- Dealing with the Mess -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant -- 1 The Beginning -- MAKING BOOKS -- 2 A Project Is Born -- 3 Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet -- 4 Selected Writings -- 5 An Unremarkable Decade -- 6 The Crooked Timber of Humanity -- 7 The Magus of the North -- 8 The Sense of Reality -- PROBING IDEAS -- 9 Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature -- 10 Pluralism and Religion -- 11 The Moral Core and the Human Horizon -- 12 The End -- 13 Epilogue -- Appendix: A Posthumous Letter to Berlin -- References and Asides -- Select Biographical Glossary -- Index -- Plates -- Copyright.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Concepts, Character, and the Specter of New Cold Wars -- Chapter 2: Isaiah Berlin and Reinhold Niebuhr: Cold War Liberalism as an Intellectual Ethos -- Berlin, Niebuhr, and the Political Vision of Cold War Liberalism -- Berlin, Niebuhr, and Cold War Liberalism as Ethical Project -- Post-Script: The Past Alive in the Present? -- Chapter 3: The Contours of Cold War Liberalism (Berlin's in Particular) -- Philosophical Commitments -- A Primacy of Practice? A Primacy of Psychology? On Cold War Liberal Political Principles -- Cold War Liberal Strategies -- Chapter 4: Liberal Pluralism and Common Decency -- Berlin's Liberal Pluralism -- The Concept of Normality -- The Common Moral Minimum -- Constrained Value Pluralism -- Decent Societies -- Indecent Societies -- A Precarious Equilibrium -- Index.

"This study offers a fresh reappraisal of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) from childhood to the height of his intellectual career. It provides the first historically contextualized study of Berlin's formative years and identifies different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism. Applying a 'double perspective' that examines Berlin both as an East European Jewish émigré; as well as a British Liberal intellectual, author Arie Dubnov stresses the very ambivalent relation between Berlin's liberal philosophy and his pro-Zionist sentiments"--

"This study offers a fresh reappraisal of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) from childhood to the height of his intellectual career. It provides the first historically contextualized study of Berlin's formative years and identifies different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism. Applying a 'double perspective' that examines Berlin both as an East European Jewish émigré; as well as a British Liberal intellectual, author Arie Dubnov stresses the very ambivalent relation between Berlin's liberal philosophy and his pro-Zionist sentiments"--