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Zusatztext "Berlin's message is not comforting to conventional liberal establishment susceptibilities. As this book insists, it is deeply subversive. Gray finds in Berlin's `value pluralism' the leitmotif of all his writings. Ultimate human values, Berlin insists, are conflictive; they cannot be reconciled by rational calculation since they are not measurable, least of all can they be reconciled by what Gray dismisses as `the desiccated discourse of Anglo-American philosophy,' which Berlin abandoned as incapable of solving anything of importance to us as human beings, at worst a game of juggling with words, at best a species of mental arithmetic dispelling tragic confusions." ---Raymond Carr, Spectator Informationen zum Autor John GrayWith a new introduction by the author Klappentext "Isaiah Berlin delighted in the world's variousness, and made a philosophy out of that delight. John Gray in this book presents to us a thinker who set himself squarely against all those, on the left or the right, who have hit upon a Big Idea that they believe will change the world and who try to coerce us into following them. Gray's book is now all the more timely." --John Banville Zusammenfassung Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah Berlin arrived in England from Riga, Latvia. By the time he was thirty he was at the heart of British Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements vii Introduction to the New Edition 1 Introduction to the Original Edition 36 1. The Idea of Freedom 41 2. Pluralism 74 3. History 111 4. Nationalism 133 5. Romanticism and the Counter-Enlightenment 156 6. Agonistic Liberalism 175 Notes 203 Concise Bibliography of Berlin's Work 215 Index 223
