| The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History Contributor(s): Berlin, Isaiah (Author), Hardy, Henry, Jr. (Editor), Gardiner, Patrick (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0374525692 ISBN-13: 9780374525699 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1998 Annotation: Berlin's "The Sense of Reality" made available, in the months before the author's death, an important body of previously unknown work by one of the century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - History | Essays - Philosophy | Essays |
| Dewey: 192 |
| LCCN: 96039829 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.5" W x 8.64" (0.88 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of our century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: the subjects explored include realism in history; judgement in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of historians being able to recreate a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berlin, Isaiah: - Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to England in 1921. At Oxford, he was a Fellow of New College and of All Souls, and founding president of Wolfson College.Hardy, Henry: - Henry Hardy edited The Proper Study of Mankind from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Henry Hardy edited The Sense of Reality from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |