Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought – Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin (PDF)

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This new edition features the previously unpublished delivery text of Berlin’s inaugural lecture as a professor at Oxford, which derives from this volume and stands as the briefest and most pithy version of his famous essay “Two Concepts of Liberty.?Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which the great intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the period he made his own. 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 1760-1830 are still largely ours, down to the language and metaphors they are expressed in. Berlin provides a vivid account of some of the era’s most influential thinkers, including Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Helvetius, Condorcet, Saint-Simon, and Schelling. Written in Berlin’s characteristically accessible style, this is his longest single text. Distilling his formative early work and containing much that is not to be found in his famous essays, the book is of great interest both for what it reveals about the continuing influence of Romantic political thinking and for what it shows about the development of Berlin’s own influential thought.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.

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⭐For all his erudition, brilliance & insights, there are two things that Isaiah Berlin found almost impossible to do. One, to write a simple declarative sentence. Two, he cannot tell you what a person said, thought, believed, did without first telling you what the person did NOT say, think, believe or do, and these are catalogued with merciless detail in a cascade of independent or chain of dependent clauses that not infrequently span and entire page. The result is that when one finally comes to what the person did actually say or do or think or believe, it is easy to forget what it is that is being discussed. So reading this book is like wiggling a loose tooth; it’s hard to resist but it is painful. My recommendation is that anyone who is new to Berlin should not start with this book.

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