Book Announcement: Berlin on Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
- Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought byIsaiah Berlin, Edited by Henry Hardy, With an introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss
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It is sometimes thought that the renowned essayist Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was incapable of writing a big book. But in fact he developed some of his most important essays–including “Two Concepts of Liberty” and “Historical Inevitability”–from a book-length manuscript that he intended to publish but later set aside. Published here for the first time, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the history of ideas in the period that he made his own–the Romantic age. Distilling his formative early work in the history of ideas, the book also contains much that is not found elsewhere in his writings. The last of Berlin’s posthumous books, it is of great interest both for his treatment of the subject and for what it reveals about his intellectual development.
Cloth | $29.95 / £18.95 | ISBN: 0-691-12687-9