Isaiah Berlin: the journey of a Jewish liberal/ Arie M. Dubnov
Material type: TextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryPublication details: New York: Palgrave, 2012Description: xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780230110700Subject(s): Liberalism | Zionism | PhilosophersDDC classification: 192Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Part I: The Importance of Being Witty
1 A Young Boy from Riga
"Heredity is a queer and wanton force"
Negotiating Borders
2 Becoming a Russian-Jew
The Politics of Anglicization
Freedom: Stoic or Economist?
Monsieur un rien
3 The Realist Appeal
Fitting into the Oxford Texture
Joining Ayer's Crusade
First Encounters with Positive Freedom
Part II: The Pink Liberal
4 Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes
A Sense of Impending Doom
Jewish Normalization
5 "1 Never Don't Moralize"
Isaiah's Sentimental Journey
Spain, the Ideological "Farbekenner"
6 Karl Marx
"Closeness-to-Reality" as a Yardstick
The Counter-attack
Part III: The Anticosmopolitan Pluralist
7 Collisions
Two Faces of Appeasement
Wartime Assignments
8 On Moses and Joshua
All Souls in Washington
Defending Albion
"There are moments when silence is shameful"
9 Shifting Horizons
Between Weizmann and Churchill
From "Ionian Fallacy" to Totalitarian Monism
Freedom as an Opportunity Concept
Conclusion: "This mighty conflict between the fantasy of
Home and the fantasy of Away"
Returning to the Philosophical Reservoir
Berlin's Philosophical Anthropology
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