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Freedom and Its Betrayal : Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition / Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Updated edition with a New paper New ForewordDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691157573
  • 9781400851430
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 123.5 23
LOC classification:
  • B824.4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Krauze, Enrique -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- Introduction -- Helvétius -- Rousseau -- Fichte -- Hegel -- Saint-Simon -- Maistre -- APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION: 'Two Concepts of Liberty': Early Texts -- REFERENCES -- Index
Summary: These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and confirmed Berlin's reputation as an intellectual who could speak to the public in an appealing and compelling way. A recording of only one of the lectures has survived, but Henry Hardy has recreated them all here from BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated drafts. Hardy has also added, as an appendix to this new edition, a revealing text of "Two Concepts" based on Berlin's earliest surviving drafts, which throws light on some of the issues raised by the essay. And, in a new foreword, historian Enrique Krauze traces the origin of Berlin's idea of negative freedom to his rejection of the notion that the creation of the State of Israel left Jews with only two choices: to emigrate to Israel or to renounce Jewish identity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Krauze, Enrique -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- Introduction -- Helvétius -- Rousseau -- Fichte -- Hegel -- Saint-Simon -- Maistre -- APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION: 'Two Concepts of Liberty': Early Texts -- REFERENCES -- Index

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and confirmed Berlin's reputation as an intellectual who could speak to the public in an appealing and compelling way. A recording of only one of the lectures has survived, but Henry Hardy has recreated them all here from BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated drafts. Hardy has also added, as an appendix to this new edition, a revealing text of "Two Concepts" based on Berlin's earliest surviving drafts, which throws light on some of the issues raised by the essay. And, in a new foreword, historian Enrique Krauze traces the origin of Berlin's idea of negative freedom to his rejection of the notion that the creation of the State of Israel left Jews with only two choices: to emigrate to Israel or to renounce Jewish identity.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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