The Power of Ideas

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by Isaiah Berlin

Princeton University Press

Due/Published March 2000, 256 pages, cloth

ISBN 069105018X

The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case with many of Berlin's earlier volumes, is the social and political role of ideas. Among the contributions are "My Intellectual Path," Berlin's last essay, a retrospective autobiographical survey of his main preoccupations; and "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation," the classic statement of his Zionist views, long unavailable in print. His other subjects include the Enlightenment, Giambattista Vico, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, G.V. Plekhanov, the Russian intelligentsia, the idea of liberty, political realism, nationalism, and historicism.