| The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays Contributor(s): Berlin, Isaiah (Author), Hardy, Henry (Editor), Hausheer, Roger (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0374527172 ISBN-13: 9780374527174 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: "The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his studies of intellectual originals. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 192 |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (1.40 lbs) 704 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, The Hedgehog and the Fox; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder. |
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.Hausheer, Roger: - Roger Hausheer contributed to The Proper Study of Mankind from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.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. |