Berlin, Isaiah.

The power of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy. - Princeton, N.J. : Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2000. - xv, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My intellectual path -- The purpose of philosophy -- The philosophers of the Enlightenment -- One of the boldest innovators in the history of human thought -- Russian intellectual history -- The man who became a myth -- A revolutionary without fanaticism -- The role of the intelligentsia -- Liberty -- The philosophy of Karl Marx -- The father of Russian Marxism -- Realism in politics -- The origins of Israel -- Jewish slavery and emancipation -- Chaim Weizmann's leadership -- The search for status -- The essence of European romanticism -- Meinecke and historicism -- General education.

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