Isaiah Berlin: the journey of a Jewish liberal/
Arie M. Dubnov
- New York: Palgrave, 2012.
- xiv, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. .
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