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The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer ; with a foreword by Noel Annan ; introduction by Roger Hausheer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.Edition: 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux edDescription: xxxvi, 667 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0374237506 (alk. paper)
  • 9780374237509 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 192
LOC classification:
  • B 1618 B515p 1998
Contents:
The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations : The concept of scientific history ; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism : 'From hope and fear set free' ; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism : Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas : The Counter-Enlightenment ; The originality of Machiavelli ; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities -- Herder and the Enlightenment -- Russian writers : The hedghog and the fox -- Herzen and his memoirs ; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age : The apotheosis of the romantic will ; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures : Winston Churchill in 1940 ; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) B 1618 B515p 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000085519

"First published in 1997 by Chatto & Windus Limited, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [639]-644) and index.

The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations : The concept of scientific history ; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism : 'From hope and fear set free' ; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism : Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas : The Counter-Enlightenment ; The originality of Machiavelli ; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities -- Herder and the Enlightenment -- Russian writers : The hedghog and the fox -- Herzen and his memoirs ; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age : The apotheosis of the romantic will ; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures : Winston Churchill in 1940 ; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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