{"product_id":"in-search-of-isaiah-berlin-9780755601318","title":"In Search of Isaiah Berlin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century  a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas  especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism  have become even more prescient and vital today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut who was the man behind such influential views? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin''s huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who gave us a new way of thinking about the human predicament, and whose work h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new perspective on an important intellectual figure is of great value. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eA touching and often fascinating memoir ... Hardy has done much to preserve the ideas and, indeed, the memory of an extraordinary man for posterity. * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe intellectual thrill of the accuracy of a footnote is the stuff of this work. * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eWritten with passion, wit, and verve, […] an invitation to reread a major thinker whose ideas remain relevant today. -- Aurelian Craitu * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA hugely enjoyable and accessible account of the relationship between the two men. -- David Herman * Jewish Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful book on a wonderful subject. -- John Banville\u003cbr\u003eHenry Hardy, the main editor of Isaiah Berlin, has invented a new genre, a sort of “making-of” for academic publishing. -- Mario Clemens * The Berlin Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA concise yet comprehensive account of Isaiah Berlin’s thinking. * The Browser *\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary book, In Search of Isaiah Berlin relates the story of a twentyfive-year collaboration between Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, told via previously unpublished letters that are as delightful as they are revealing of Berlin’s personality and ideas. -- Michael Ignatieff, author of Isaiah Berlin: A Life\u003cbr\u003eHenry Hardy’s special vantage point as Berlin’s long-standing editor makes \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Isaiah Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e a peculiarly authentic and vivid picture of the twentieth century’s greatest liberal thinker. -- John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant 1. The Beginning  Making Books 2. A Project is Born 3. Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet 4. \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e 5. An Unremarkable Decade 6. \u003ci\u003eThe Crooked Timber of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eThe Magus of the North\u003c\/i\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of Reality\u003c\/i\u003e  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  \u003ci\u003eReferences and Asides\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelect Biographical Glossary\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865785545047,"sku":"9780755601318","price":16.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755601318.jpg?v=1722275560","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-isaiah-berlin-9780755601318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}