England’s Isaiah
Perry Anderson, 20 December 1990
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,9780719547898 Show More
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,
“... Machiavelli, Vico, Herder, Pluralism, Romanticism, Utopianism. Even the longest piece, on Joseph de Maistre, is the enlargement of a portrait already sketched in an earlier comparison with Tolstoy. In a sense, however, this is the interest of the collection: it serves to bring the unity of Berlin’s thought sharply into focus. A philosopher by ... ”
