Political Ideas In The Romantic Age

Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought

Isaiah Berlin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Apr '07

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Isaiah Berlin's longest continuous work - and therefore of key importance to anyone interested in the history of ideas.

'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.

'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 ideas that dominate the political arguments of our own time.

As he put it in his Prologue, 'The age of which we speak was singularly rich in original conceptions; they transformed our world, and the words in which they were formulated speak to us still'.

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 *
A dense, demanding, but often exciting book -- Carole Angier * Daily Telegraph *
Indispensable for anyone interested in the history of ideas and the development of liberal thought -- John Gray * New York Review of Books *
A fine introduction to Berlin's thought, and a major addition to the corpus of his work * Literary Review *

ISBN: 9781844139262

Dimensions: 234mm x 153mm x 26mm

Weight: 425g

352 pages