Isaiah Berlin
Books by Isaiah Berlin
“What interested Berlin is Marx as a 48er: that is, a protagonist of, and participant in, the great revolutions of 1848-9, which are an explosion of liberalism allied with nationalism.” Read more...
The best books on Marx and Marxism
Terrell Carver, Political Scientist
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
by Isaiah Berlin
The hedgehog and fox dichotomy divides writers and, in the end, all human beings. Hedgehogs pursue one single vision, foxes are natural pluralists.
“The most striking piece is his memoir of his meetings with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova.” Read more...
Henry Hardy, Literary Scholar
“Berlin was asked what his most important book was, he said Liberty. I don’t disagree with him.” Read more...
Henry Hardy, Literary Scholar
“If you’re a serious person who wants to understand what it is that Berlin is up to, The Proper Study of Mankind is the book I would start with.” Read more...
Henry Hardy, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Isaiah Berlin were recommended
The Best Isaiah Berlin Books, recommended by Henry Hardy
He was one of the great intellectuals of the 20th century, but a people person with little interest in publishing books. Henry Hardy, the editor who helped publish many of them, chooses the best books by (and one about) Isaiah Berlin.
The best books on The Leaderless Revolution, recommended by Carne Ross
Our political and economic systems are inadequate and failing. But what can we do? The author of a new book on the subject tells us what inspired his involvement in the Occupy movement and how a leaderless revolution could work
The best books on Marx and Marxism, recommended by Terrell Carver
Few people have had their ideas reinvented as many times as the German intellectual and political activist, Karl Marx. Professor of political theory, Terrell Carver, takes us through the most influential books, in English, about Marx, Marxism and his friend, publicist and financial backer, Friedrich Engels.
