EAN: 9782758543633

IGN KARTE TOURISME ET VÉLO SAINT-BRIEUC MORLAIX...

Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered
on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time  fifty years
on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions
of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas  views which later found expression in
such famous works as 'Two Concepts of Liberty'  and were at the heart of his lifelong work on
the Enlightenment and its critics. In his lucid examinations of sometimes difficult ideas
Berlin demonstrates that a balanced understanding and a resilient defence of human liberty
depend on learning both from the errors of freedom's alleged defenders and from the dark
insights of its avowed antagonists. This book throws light on the early development of Berlin's
ideas  and supplements his already published writings with fuller treatments of Helvétius 
Rousseau  Fichte  Hegel and Saint-Simon  with the ultra-conservative traditionalist Maistre
bringing up the rear. Freedom and its Betrayal shows Berlin at his liveliest and most
torrentially spontaneous  testifying to his talents as a teacher of rare brilliance and impact.
Listeners tuned in expectantly each week to the broadcasts and found themselves mesmerised by
Berlin's astonishingly fluent extempore style. A leading historian of ideas  who was then a
schoolboy  records that the lectures 'excited me so much that I sat  for every talk  on the
floor beside the wireless  taking notes'. This excitement is at last recreated here for all to
share.

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