Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.
ISBN: | 9780712673679 |
Publication date: | 18th September 1997 |
Author: | Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy |
Publisher: | Pimlico an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 278 pages |
Genres: |
Nationalism Far-left political ideologies and movements Left-of-centre democratic ideologies Philosophy Encyclopaedias and reference works |