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Title: The Power of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0-691-09276-1 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: NOT THE BEST WORK OF BERLIN.
Comment: First, let me say that this is a selection of Berlin editorials, arranged by Henry Hardy.
The title is a quotation from Heine, who warned the French not to undervalue the power of ideas, since philosophical concepts nurtured in the peace of a library can destroy a civilization.
Under this auspices, it seemed a very interesting theme: how the history of ideas has reflected upon, challenged and ultimately changed reality. The unseen code of reality.
But the outcome is not par to the expectations. Well, Berlin is a first class philosopher and always highly entertaining. But the arrangement made here is at least a little haphazard: an attempt of intellectual autobiography (written in old age), editorials about history of philosophy, about the Russian late '800 intellectual environment, about socialism and Marxism, some incomplete considerations about freedom, editorials about Zionism and the birth of the State of Israel.....
Too much indeed and too many themes.
The best parts are the one dedicated to history of philosophy, since Berlin is one of those rare writers who is able to cast an entirely new light on the arguments he decides to investigate: the appraisal of Enlightenment is excellent (especially as Age of Mechanics opposed to the Age of Mathematics in the XVII Century), as well the essay about the purposes of Philosophy and one on the essence of European Romanticism (on this argument the best book is still his "The Roots of Romanticism", I warmly recommend). But, these are pearls scattered here and there with no apparent order.
Better would have been to focus it much more on a restricted number of arguments.
I'm a curious and voracious reader. If you have suggestion for further readings, better still... you don't agree with what I write, or just want to say hallo... feel free to write.
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Title: The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0374525692 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691058385 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 02 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691090262 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Freedom and Its Betrayal : Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691114994 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer ISBN: 0374527172 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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