Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997)
Forfatter af Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
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Philosopher, political theorist, and essayist, Isaiah Berlin was born in 1909 to Russian-speaking Jewish parents in Latvia. Reared in Latvia and later in Russia, Berlin developed a strong Russian-Jewish identity, having witnessed both the Social-Democratic and the Bolshevik Revolutions. At the age vis mere of 12, Berlin moved with his family to England, where he attended prep school and then St. Paul's. In 1928, he went up as a scholar to Corpus Christi College in Oxford. After an unsuccessful attempt at the Manchester Guardian, Berlin was offered a position as lecturer in philosophy at New College. Almost immediately, he was elected to a fellowship at All Souls. During this time at All Souls, Berlin wrote his brilliant biographical study of Marx, titled Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), for the Home University Library. Berlin continued to teach through early World War II, and was then sent to New York by the Ministry of Information, and subsequently to the Foreign Office in Washington, D.C. It was during these years that he drafted several fine works regarding the changing political mood of the United States, collected in Washington Despatches 1941-1945 (1981). By the end of the war, Berlin had shifted his focus from philosophy to the history of ideas, and in 1950 he returned to All Souls. In 1957, he was elected to the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory, delivering his influential and best-known inaugural lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty. Some of his works include Liberty, The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism, Flourishing: Selected Letters 1928 - 1946, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought, and Unfinished Dialogue, Prometheus. Berlin died in Oxford on November 5, 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Isaiah Berlin
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought (2006) 146 eksemplarer
Two Concepts of Liberty / The Purpose Justifies the Ways / My Intellectual Path (2002) 18 eksemplarer
Selected writings 6 eksemplarer
John Stuart Mill and the ends of life 2 eksemplarer
'The art of being ruled: Helvétius, happiness and the scientists' in TLS 5159, 15 Feb 2002 1 eksemplar
Jewish slavery and emancipation 1 eksemplar
Montesquieu 1 eksemplar
Tolstoy and enlightenment 1 eksemplar
El erizo y el zorro [Paperback] Isaiah Berlin 1 eksemplar
Vico's Concept of Knowledge 1 eksemplar
all 1 eksemplar
Meetings with Russian Writers 1 eksemplar
Derek Hill HRHA: Retrospective Exhibition 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia (1966) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 136 eksemplarer
The Mind of the European Romantics: An Essay in Cultural History (1966) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 46 eksemplarer
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1909-06-06
- Dødsdag
- 1997-11-05
- Begravelsessted
- Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Russia
UK (naturalized) - Fødested
- Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
- Dødssted
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Bopæl
- St. Petersburg, Russia
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- St Paul's School
University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College) - Erhverv
- philosopher
political theorist
historian of ideas
essayist
lecturer - Relationer
- Morley, Hilda (cousin)
- Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1966)
Oxford University
Wolfson College, Oxford - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Jerusalem Prize (1979)
knighthood (1957)
Order of the British Empire ( [1946])
Order of Merit (1971)
British Academy (Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (vis alle 9)
Erasmus Prize (1983)
Agnelli Prize (1987)
John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy - Kort biografi
- Isaiah Berlin was a renowned political philosopher and historian of ideas, and is widely regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.
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