The One And the Many

by CROWDER, GEORGEHARDY, HENRY

• ISBN13: 9781591024484
• ISBN10: 159102448X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

There has been no substantial critical reader dedicated to Isaiah Berlin's work until now. Complete with a valuable bibliography, this outstanding collection of recent scholarship on a seminal thinker shows the continuing relevance and importance of Berlin's many contributions to the understanding of our contemporary predicament.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the one and the many	p. 17
Berlin's Karl Marx	p. 31
Berlin and the Russian intelligentsia	p. 47
A Jew and a gentleman	p. 73
Berlin's early political thought	p. 95
Berlin on liberty	p. 119
Strange reversals : Berlin on the Enlightenment and the counter-Enlightenment	p. 141
Berlin and history	p. 159
Crooked timber or bent twig? : Berlin's nationalism	p. 181
Value pluralism and liberalism : Berlin and beyond	p. 207
A liberal-pluralist case for truth commissions : lessons from Isaiah Berlin	p. 231
Must value pluralism and religious belief collide?	p. 251
Pluralism and religious faith	p. 263
Taking pluralism seriously	p. 279
Berlin's universal values - core or horizon?	p. 293
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