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Isaiah Berlin [electronic resource] : the journey of a Jewish liberal / Arie M. Dubnov.

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This study offers a fresh reappraisal of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) from childhood to the height of his intellectual career. It provides the first historically contextualized study of Berlin's formative years and identifies different...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Dubnov, Arie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history.
Subjects:
Berlin, Isaiah, > 1909-1997.
Liberalism.
Zionism.
Table of Contents:
  • Explaining the Liberal Predicament
  • PART I: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WITTY
  • A Young Boy from Riga
  • Becoming a Russian-Jew
  • The Realist Appeal
  • PART II: THE PINK LIBERAL
  • Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes
  • 'I Never Don't Moralize'
  • Karl Marx
  • PART III: THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN PLURALIST
  • Collisions
  • On Moses and Joshua
  • Shifting Horizons
  • 'This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away'

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