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Lectures on Liberty
Isaiah Berlin: Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
By Henry Hardy (ed), with an introduction by Joshua Cherniss
Chatto & Windus 292pp £25 order from our bookshop
Isaiah Berlin began his academic career as a philosopher, became an historian of ideas, and was elected to a professorship in social and political theory at Oxford. But none of these labels quite succeeds in categorising him, because the particular character of his interests and methods escapes easy definition.
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