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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays (Berlin Collected Works)
Concepts and categories are the dimensions by which philosophy helps us understand the world and ourselves. "Concepts and Categories" contains Berlin's early philosophical discussions and several later articles on the history of science, political theory, and pluralism. Berlin always said that he abandoned pure philosophical research after World War II and turned to the field of the history of ideas. However, we can still identify the key continuity of his academic career from the early and late
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The Roots of Romanticism (The Collected Works of Berlin)
This book is compiled based on the recording of Berlin's "Romanticism" Mellon lectures in 1965. Starting from the definition of romanticism, he experienced its origin, growth and expansion, and revealed its huge and lasting influence. Berlin used the perspective of the history of ideas that his predecessors had not developed to show the incomparable power of the romantic revolution as a way of cognition and ideology. Berlin's speech has a clear structure, meticulous thinking, allusions like moun
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The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture in the Communist Era (Humanities and Society Translation Series)
This book contains some of Isaiah Berlin's never-before-published articles on the Soviet Union. There are accounts of several famous meetings between him and Soviet writers such as Pasternak and Akhmatova after World War II, as well as official documents he submitted to the British Foreign Office on the state of art in the Soviet Union under Stalin's rule; there are portraits of Mandelstam and Pasternak, and sketches of his impressions of Soviet culture after visiting the Soviet Union; and so on
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