2006, ISBN: 0691126879

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[EAN: 9780691126876], Used, good, [PU: Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.], PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, ROMANTIC, LIBERALISM, ENLIGHTENMENT, HISTORY, EUROPE, Jacket, First pr… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780691126876], Used, good, [PU: Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.], PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, ROMANTIC, LIBERALISM, ENLIGHTENMENT, HISTORY, EUROPE, Jacket, First printing. lx, 292 pp. Original cloth-backed boards. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. No remainder marks. '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. Written for a series of lectures at Bryn Mawr College in 1952, and heavily revised and expanded by Berlin afterward, the book argues that the political ideas of the Romantic age are still largely our own--down to the language and metaphors they are expressed in. Vividly expounding the central political ideas of leading European thinkers in the period 1760-1830, including Helvetius, Condorcet, Rousseau, Saint-Simon, Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte, the book is written in Berlin's characteristically accessible style. The book has been carefully prepared by Berlin's longtime editor Henry Hardy, and Joshua L. Cherniss provides an illuminating introduction that sets it in the context of Berlin's life and work' (Princeton University Press Web site). 'Indispensable for anyone interested in the history of ideas and the development of liberal thought, it contains most of the central themes of Berlin's work, together with some of its recurring ambiguities' (John Gray, New York Review of Books). Table of Contents: Abbreviations and Conventions viii Editor's Preface ix Isaiah Berlin's Political Ideas: From the Twentieth Century to the Romantic Age Joshua L. Cherniss xxi Political Ideas in the Romantic Age Prologue 1 Chapter 1: Politics as a Descriptive Science 17 Chapter 2: The Idea of Freedom 88 Chapter 3: Two Concepts of Freedom: Romantic and Liberal 155 Chapter 4: The March of History 208 Appendix: Subjective versus Objective Ethics 260 Summaries of the Flexner Lectures 266 Note from the Editor to the Author 279 Index 285, Books<

2006, ISBN: 9780691126876

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Princeton University Press, 2006-05-28. Hardcover. Like New. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING WITH FULL NUMBER LINE, no marks noted in or on book, hc with dj,AND AS ALWAYS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS; and emailed to you a USPS tracking number on all orders; all books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing, Princeton University Press, 2006-05-28, 5<