Isaiah Berlin: 28 books

Book cover of Against the Current

Against the Current

Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013

In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings...
Book cover of Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960
by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety, and revels in describing them to his many correspondents. His letters combine ironic social comedy...
Book cover of Russian Thinkers
by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which...
Book cover of The Crooked Timber of Humanity

The Crooked Timber of Humanity

Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of...
Book cover of El erizo y el zorro
by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 3, 2016

«Entre los fragmentos conservados del poeta griego Arquíloco, uno dice: “Muchas cosas sabe el zorro, pero el erizo sabe una sola y grande”. La fórmula, según Isaiah Berlin, puede servir para diferenciar a dos clases de pensadores, de artistas, de seres humanos en general: aquellos que poseen...
Book cover of Personal Impressions
by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes in both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein,...
Book cover of El fuste torcido de la humanidad

El fuste torcido de la humanidad

Capítulos de historia de las ideas

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2019

El fuste torcido de la humanidad explora las conexiones entre las ideas del pasado y los cambios radicales que se vivieron en Occidente en el siglo xx: por un lado, la fe en la verdad absoluta de Platón, la ideología reaccionaria de Joseph de Maistre y el romanticismo de Schiller y Byron; por el...
Book cover of The Proper Study Of Mankind

The Proper Study Of Mankind

An Anthology of Essays

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights...
Book cover of El estudio adecuado de la humanidad

El estudio adecuado de la humanidad

Antología de ensayos

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 4, 2014

Esta antología reúne los escritos esenciales de uno de los más grandes pensadores del siglo XX. La reflexión sobre el vínculo entre teoría política e historiografía, el problema del determinismo y la libertad, la relación entre romanticismo y nacionalismo, así como el retrato de los grandes...
Book cover of Contra la corriente
by Isaiah Berlin, Roger Hausheer
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2019

La indiscutida eminencia intelectual de Sir Isaiah Berlin hace de este libro antológico una verdadera joya en el panorama del pensamiento histórico de la segunda mitad de nuestro siglo. Contra la corriente es, como pocos en este tiempo, un libro de salud intelectual y de méritos trascendentales.
Book cover of Against The Current

Against The Current

Essays in the History of Ideas

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam...
Book cover of El sentido de la realidad

El sentido de la realidad

Sobre las ideas y su historia

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2017

El libro más personal de uno de los principales pensadores liberales del siglo XX. ¿Cómo construir una sociedad decente? ¿Por qué ciertas ideas aparentemente nobles y hermosas pueden alimentar las peores ideologías? Referente ineludible en la historia de las ideas, Berlin recorre...
Book cover of La traición de la libertad

La traición de la libertad

Seis enemigos de la libertad humana

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2017

Análisis de Berlin en seis conferencias reunidas, en las que plantea una interrogante: ¿por qué debe un individuo obedecer a otro individuo?, y toma como base el concepto de libertad de seis pensadores: Helvecio, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Saint-Simon y De Maistre, en intensas disertaciones sobre el significado del Estado, la Sociedad, el individuo y las leyes.
Book cover of Las ideas políticas en la era romántica

Las ideas políticas en la era romántica

Surgimiento e influencia en el pensamiento moderno

by Isaiah Berlin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Ensayos surgidos de una serie de conferencias ofrecidas por el autor en 1952 en la Universidad de Pensilvania, donde se revalora la tradición liberal de occidente y en los que es posible encontrar manifestaciones tempranas de la conceptualización berliniana sobre la libertad, su análisis de la filosofía de la historia y su crítica al determinismo intelectual.
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