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The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.55The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.98'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.55Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin 9780712665544
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $31.98'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a... -
Conversations With Isaiah Berlin Ramin Jahanbegloo 9781905559039
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time An interview with the noted British philosopher and historian of ideas,... -
Enlightening: Letters 1946 - 1960 by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $31.23'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters. He is a fascinated watcher of human beings in all their variety,... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75Isaiah 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... -
Building: Letters 1960-1975 by Isaiah Berlin 9781845952303
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.27In 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,... -
The Power of Ideas: Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157603
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.25The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more... -
Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays by Isaiah Berlin 9780712665520
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53Although Isaiah Berlin liked to say that he left philosophy for the history of ideas after the Second World War, there is a decided continuity between his more purely philosophical writings, most of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin by Joshua L. Cherniss 9781316503058
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the... -
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin by Joshua L. Cherniss 9781107138506
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $166.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Book of Isaiah - Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin by Henry Hardy 9781843838760
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $68.06Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $38.70In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli,... -
The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism by Isaiah Berlin 9780815728870
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.47"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the... -
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157573
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse by Jean Bethke Elshtain 9780268210083
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $111.78Jean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib 9780691167251
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61A Telegraph Best Summer Book of 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? ... -
It Could Be Otherwise: Science in the Age of Uncertainty by Stuart Firestein 9781541606739
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $36.50A profound argument for science that embraces uncertainty and promotes possibility, creativity, and the belief that we can shape, if not determine, our future The search for certainty is embedded... -
Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times Samuel Moyn 9780300280128
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.26The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By... -
Thinking the Future: New Perspectives From the Shoulders of Giants Clem Sunter 9781776096299
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.36Do you know how to think about the future? All our decisions are about the future, whether it's tomorrow, next year or the next decade, yet our choices are often undermined by desires, expectations... -
How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival Ian Dunt 9781912454419
Booksplease Price: $57.88Liberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson 9780691176680
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $65.73A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.62TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a... -
Pluralism Peter Lassman 9780745616186
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $32.21The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under investigation. Political thinkers such as Max... -
The Noise of Time: Selected Prose by Osip Mandel'shtam 9780810119284
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42Collected prose works by one of Russla's towering literary figures; Osip Mandelstam has in recent years come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. Though known primarily as a poet,... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by Thomas Harding 9781474621090
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $18.10Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There he began a career in publishing that would make him one of the most influential... -
Roots in the Air: A Philosophical Autobiography of a Philosopher, Artist, and Musician by Michael Krausz
Booksplease Price: $153.01By way of dialogues, Michael Krausz offers philosophical reflections about his life as philosopher, artist, and musician. He also rehearses his views about relativism, interpretation, creativity, and... -
Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism by Danny Postel
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $18.48The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded transformation of a wholly different political bent is... -
Kantian Ethics by Allen W. Wood 9780521671149
Booksplease Price: $70.35In this book, Allen Wood investigates Kant's conception of ethical theory, using it to develop a viable approach to the rights and moral duties of human beings. By remaining closer to Kant's own view... -
Doctor Zhivago (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Boris Pasternak
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.90TRANSLATED BY MAX HAYWARD AND MANYA HARARIBanned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian... -
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective by Michael W. Spicer 9780817357962
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement,... -
New Wine and Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse by Jean Bethke Elshtain 9780268014834
Booksplease Price: $45.74Jean Bethke Elshtain, the 1996 Hesburgh Lecturer on Ethics and Public Policy, challenges a powerful strand in western political thinking that separates the political and ethical realms. This is...