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The Roots of Romanticism

The Roots of Romanticism Philosophy

The Roots of Romanticism

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"Isaiah Berlin's Mellon Lectures on romanticism, a movement that he believed to be 'the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West to have occurred, ' are as eloquent, sprightly, and profound as anything he ever produced. This edition is provided with fascinating addenda as well as exacting editing and full references; it presents Berlin's analysis of the contradictions, plurality, and irrationality of a vital conjunction in intellectual, political, and artistic history, and restores the voice of the magus at its most thought-provoking and beguiling."--Roy Foster, University of Oxford "This book provides an excellent account of the topics that were to preoccupy Berlin throughout his life. . . . It is a history of ideas, wonderfully under control, always with the sense of how those ideas have impacted on other ideas and eventually on the contemporary period."--Tracy B. Strong, University of California, San Diego "In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free."--Michael Ignatieff
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2013-06-02
Publication Date:
2013-06-02
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691156204
ISBN13:
9780691156200
Weight:
248 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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