Description
| Product ID: | 9780712665544 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Power Of Ideas |
| Authors: | Author: Isaiah Berlin |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, History of ideas, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History of ideas, Jewish studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include "My Intellectual Path", an autobiographical survey of Berlin's main preoccupations, and "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation", the classic statement of his Zionist views. ''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 civilisation'' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. |
| Imprint Name: | Pimlico |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-04-19 |
