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Personal Impressions : 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 ForewordDescription: 1 online resource : 18 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691157702
  • 9781400851683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920.00904 23
LOC classification:
  • CT120 .B37 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Author's Preface to the First Edition -- Editor's Preface -- Winston Churchill in 1940 -- Hubert Henderson at All Souls -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Richard Pares -- Chaim Weizmann -- Felix Frankfurter at Oxford -- Aldous Huxley -- L. B. Namier -- Maurice Bowra -- J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy -- John Petrov Plamenatz -- Auberon Herbert -- Einstein and Israel -- Where Was I? -- Maynard and Lydia Keynes -- Nahum Goldmann -- Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion -- Martin Cooper -- Yitzhak Sadeh -- Adam von Trott -- David Cecil -- Edmund Wilson at Oxford -- Memories of Virginia Woolf -- Alexander and Salome Halpern -- Jewish Oxford -- Herbert Hart -- Corpuscle -- Stephen Spender -- Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 -- Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life -- Afterword / Annan, Noel -- Index / Matthews, Douglas
Summary: In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt, Berlin met them all, and he knew many of them well. Other figures recalled here include the Zionist Yitzhak Sadeh, the U.S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter, the classicist and wit Maurice Bowra, the philosopher J. L. Austin, and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. For this edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Author's Preface to the First Edition -- Editor's Preface -- Winston Churchill in 1940 -- Hubert Henderson at All Souls -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Richard Pares -- Chaim Weizmann -- Felix Frankfurter at Oxford -- Aldous Huxley -- L. B. Namier -- Maurice Bowra -- J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy -- John Petrov Plamenatz -- Auberon Herbert -- Einstein and Israel -- Where Was I? -- Maynard and Lydia Keynes -- Nahum Goldmann -- Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion -- Martin Cooper -- Yitzhak Sadeh -- Adam von Trott -- David Cecil -- Edmund Wilson at Oxford -- Memories of Virginia Woolf -- Alexander and Salome Halpern -- Jewish Oxford -- Herbert Hart -- Corpuscle -- Stephen Spender -- Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 -- Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life -- Afterword / Annan, Noel -- Index / Matthews, Douglas

In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt, Berlin met them all, and he knew many of them well. Other figures recalled here include the Zionist Yitzhak Sadeh, the U.S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter, the classicist and wit Maurice Bowra, the philosopher J. L. Austin, and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. For this edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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