The Sense of RealityThe Sense of Reality
Studies in Ideas and Their History
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Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, Pimlico edition, Available .Book, 1997
Current format, Book, 1997, Pimlico edition, Available . Offered in 0 more formatsIsaiah Berlin's new collection at last makes available an important body of previously unknown work by one of our leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English.
Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide- realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impast of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece. 'All the productions of Berlin's long and distinguished career are characterised by urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and witty elegance. These traits are satisfyingly and instructively here present again. ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'They exude a generous, sympathetic and large-minded enthusiasm for all sorts of thinkers and all sorts of ideas that make them a continuous pleasure to read. ' TLS
Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide- realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impast of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece. 'All the productions of Berlin's long and distinguished career are characterised by urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and witty elegance. These traits are satisfyingly and instructively here present again. ' FINANCIAL TIMES 'They exude a generous, sympathetic and large-minded enthusiasm for all sorts of thinkers and all sorts of ideas that make them a continuous pleasure to read. ' TLS
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