Isaiah Berlin
| Titel: | Isaiah Berlin : the journey of a Jewish liberal / Arie M. Dubnov |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 316 Seiten ; 24x16x2 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history |
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| ISBN: | 0230110703 ; 9780230110700 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
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X
- List of Illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Abbreviations and Archives
- p. xiii
- Introduction: Explaining the Liberal Predicament
- p. 1
- Legacy or Ambivalence?
- p. 4
- Intellectual Biography and its Discontents
- p. 10
- Part I
- The Importance of Being Witty
- 1
- A Young Boy from Riga
- p. 17
- "Heredity is a queer and wanton force"
- p. 19
- Negotiating Borders
- p. 28
- 2
- Becoming a Russian-Jew
- p. 35
- The Politics of Anglicization
- p. 37
- Freedom: Stoic or Economist?
- p. 43
- Monsieur un rien
- p. 48
- 3
- The Realist Appeal
- p. 53
- Fitting into the Oxford Texture
- p. 55
- Joining Ayer's Crusade
- p. 63
- First Encounters with Positive Freedom
- p. 72
- Part II
- The Pink Liberal
- 4
- Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes
- p. 79
- A Sense of Impending Doom
- p. 81
- Jewish Normalization
- p. 88
- 5
- "I Never Don't Moralize"
- p. 103
- Isaiah's Sentimental Journey
- p. 103
- Spain, the Ideological "Farbekenner"
- p. 117
- 6
- Karl Marx
- p. 127
- "Closeness-to-Reality" as a Yardstick
- p. 127
- The Counter-attack
- p. 134
- Part III
- The Anticosmopolitan Pluralist
- 7
- Collisions
- p. 145
- Two Faces of Appeasement
- p. 147
- Wartime Assignments
- p. 159
- 8
- On Moses and Joshua
- p. 165
- All Souls in Washington
- p. 167
- Defending Albion
- p. 173
- "There are moments when silence is shameful"
- p. 178
- 9
- Shifting Horizons
- p. 185
- Between Weizmann and Churchill
- p. 186
- From "Ionian Fallacy" to Totalitarian Monism
- p. 190
- Freedom as an Opportunity Concept
- p. 194
- Conclusion: "This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away"
- p. 201
- Returning to the Philosophical Reservoir
- p. 203
- Berlin's Philosophical Anthropology
- p. 213
- Notes
- p. 219
- Bibliography
- p. 261
- Index
- p. 297
