The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays /

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

The proper study of mankind : an anthology of essays / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer ; with a foreword by Noel Annan ; introduction by Roger Hausheer. - 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. - xxxvi, 667 p. ; 24 cm.

"First published in 1997 by Chatto & Windus Limited, United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [639]-644) and index.

The pursuit of the ideal -- Philosophical foundations : The concept of scientific history ; Does political theory still exist? -- Freedom and determinism : 'From hope and fear set free' ; Historical inevitability -- Political liberty and pluralism : Two concepts of liberty -- History of ideas : The Counter-Enlightenment ; The originality of Machiavelli ; The divorce between the sciences and the humanities -- Herder and the Enlightenment -- Russian writers : The hedghog and the fox -- Herzen and his memoirs ; Conversations with Akhmatova and Pasternak -- Romanticism and nationalism in the modern age : The apotheosis of the romantic will ; Nationalism : past neglect and present power -- Twentieth-century figures : Winston Churchill in 1940 ; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Human beings.
Philosophical anthropology.
History--Philosophy.
Political science--Philosophy.
Antropología filosófica.
Filosofía.
Filosofâia polâitica.

B 1618 / B515p 2000

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