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Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
Isaiah Berlin
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Description for Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
paperback. Written in preparation for his lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in 1952, the author talks about his subject and about his own intellectual development. He lays out in one connected account his key insights on the history of ideas in the period which he made his own - the 'romantic age' - the bridge between the 18th and 19th centuries. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 472. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
'I was exhausted at the end, & yet I am sure that if ever I saw & heard anyone in a true state of inspiration it was then.'
So wrote a listener to her friend after attending one of the lectures based on the book. Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the text Berlin wrote for four of the lectures, delivered in 1952. He revised what he had written extensively afterwards but never published it. It is his longest work and also the only connected account he gave of his key insights into the history of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844139262
SKU
KSG0032178
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in Petrograd in 1917 Berlin witnessed both Revolutions - Social Democratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 he and his parents emigrated to England, where he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Apart from ... Read more
Reviews for Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
An event of major importance... Hitherto, students of Berlin have been like explorers searching for the source of the Nile, but with only a network of streams to go by, not a single river; now they can stand on the shores of their very own Lake Victoria, gazing at the mighty reservoir itself
Noel Malcolm
Sunday Telegraph
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Sunday Telegraph
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