Isaiah Berlin

Biographic Data

ID3586980
NAMEIsaiah Berlin
GIVEN NAMESIsaiah
FAMILY NAMEBerlin
SIGNATUREBERLIN I
AFFILIATIONSOxford University Press (United Kingdom)
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS467
AUTHOR COUNT62
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1949
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX8

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyBOOKHedgehog and the Fox2019

  • A Turning-Point in Political Thought

    Isaiah Berlin, Jeffrey M PerlARTICLECommon Knowledge2019

    Berlin discerns three great crises in Western political thought, each challenging one of its three primary tenets. The three tenets are (1) that questions about correct human actions are answerable, whether the answers are yet known or not; (2) that the answers to those questions, insofar as they are true, cannot contradict each other; and (3) that human beings have a distinctive character, which is essentially social. Each of these tenets has be…

  • Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition

    Enrique Krause, Isaiah Berlin et al.BOOKFreedom and Its Betrayal2014

  • Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays

    Alasdair C Macintyre, Isaiahhg Berlin et al.BOOKConcepts and Categories2014

    "The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the phil…

  • The Power of Ideas: Second Edition

    Avishai Margalit, Isaiahhg Berlin et al.BOOKPower of Ideas2014

    The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as i…

  • Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyBOOKConcepts and Categories2013

  • Author’s Note

    Isaiah BerlinCHAPTERAgainst the Current2013

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyBOOKCrooked Timber of Humanity2013

  • Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry HardyBOOKAgainst the Current2013

  • Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder - Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Jonathan Israel et al.BOOKThree Critics of the Enlightenment2013

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History - Second Edition

    Open AccessIsaiah Berlin, Michael Ignatieff et al.BOOKHedgehog and the Fox2013

  • Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition

    Open AccessIsaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan et al.BOOKKarl Marx2013

  • Power of Ideas: Second Edition

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy et al.BOOKPower of Ideas2013

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)

    Henry Hardy, Isaiahhg Berlin et al.BOOKCrooked Timber of Humanity2013Cited by: 15

    "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 individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political…

  • Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition)

    Henry Hardy, Isaiah Berlin et al.BOOKAgainst the Current2013Cited by: 12

    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 to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edi…

  • Who Is a Jew?”—Professor Isaiah Berlin's Memorandum to the Prime Minister of Israel, 23 January 1959

    Isaiah BerlinARTICLEIsrael Studies2008

    Who Is a Jew?"—Professor Isaiah Berlin's Memorandum to the Prime Minister of Israel, 23 January 1959 Isaiah Berlin In the fall of 1958, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion addressed a letter to Jewish scholars and thinkers in Israel and abroad in connection with the work of the Cabinet Committee for the Registration of Children of Mixed Marriages, seeking their opinions about the relationship of religion and nationalism in the formulation of …

  • The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism

    Jason Ferrell, Isaiah Berlin et al.ARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2005

    Isaiah Berlin's response to the Soviet Union was central to his identity, both personally and intellectually. Born a Russian subject in Riga in 1909, he spoke Russian as a child and witnessed both revolutions in St. Petersburg in 1917, emigrating to the West in 1921. He first returned to Russia in 1945, when he met the writers Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak. These formative encounters helped shape his later work, especially his defense of pol…

  • Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 93, part 5)

    Isaiah Berlin, Joseph Mali et al.BOOKIsaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenme…2003

    As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves refle…

  • Liberty

    Isaiah Berlin, Edited by Henry HardyBOOKLiberty2002

    Liberty is the new and expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin’s Four Essays on Liberty, a modern classic of liberalism. These essays, of which the best known is ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’, do not offer a systematic account of liberalism, but instead deploy a view of being, knowledge, and value which was calculated by Berlin to rule totalitarian thinking out of court. The new edition adds to the four, ‘From Hope and Fear set free’, which reinforces Berl…

  • Exile in London: The First Phase

    Isaiah BerlinCHAPTERKarl Marx2002

  • Two Concepts of Liberty

    Isaiah BerlinCHAPTERLiberty2002

    This lecture insisted upon negative liberty as the political complement to the human capacity for free choice, and made matching metaphysical claims: the nature of being, and especially the conflicts amongst values, were inconsistent with totalitarian claims. Berlin, arguing along this line, provided an account of the perversion of positive liberty into a warrant for such claims, discussed nationalism, and emphasized the value‐pluralism, now link…

  • Historical Materialism

    Isaiah BerlinCHAPTERKarl Marx2002

  • Karl Marx: His Life and Environment

    Isaiah Berlin, Allanah Ryan et al.BOOKKarl Marx2002

    First published over fifty years ago, Isaiah Berlin's compelling portrait of the father of modern Communism has long been considered the best short account written of Marx's life and thought. It provides a penetrating, lucid and comprehensive introduction to Marx as theorist of the socialist revolution, illuminating his personality and ideas, concentrating on those which have historically formed the central core of Marxism. In turn, Berlin presen…

  • Liberty

    Isaiah BerlinBOOKLiberty2002

    Four Essays on Liberty issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1969. Liberty published in hardback and paperback 2002. Reprinted 2002 (with corrections)"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index

  • Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty

    Isaiah Berlin, Edited by Henry Hardy et al.BOOKLiberty2002

    "Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of a modern classic of liberalism, Four Essays On Liberty, regarded by Isaiah Berlin as his most important book, and constantly discussed since its publication in 1969. Irving Howe described it in Harper's as 'an exhilarating performance - this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be'." "Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has told the story of the book's genesis, revised the text, identified sou…