Self-Amused
Adam Phillips: Isaiah Berlin, 23 July 2009
Isaiah Berlin, Enlightening: Letters 1946-60
edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes.
Chatto, 844 pp., £35, June 2009,978 0 7011 7889 5 Show More
edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes.
Chatto, 844 pp., £35, June 2009,
“... to know what to think (the pun on ‘solution’ is Berlin’s kind of joke). Committed to what John Gray has called ‘agonistic liberalism’, to the irresolvably competing claims made on and by post-Enlightenment individuals, Berlin was as keen on refuges from conflict as on conflict itself; more excited by academic appointments in Oxford than by ... ”