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Personal Impressions By Isaiah Berlin : "Updated Edition"

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Personal Impressions : Updated Edition
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Paperback
English
By (author) Isaiah Berlin , Afterword by Noel Gilroy Annan , Foreword by Hermione Lee , Edited by Henry Hardy





In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers. These include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Boris Pasternak, and Anna Akhmatova. With the exception of Roosevelt, Berlin met them all, and he knew many of them well. Other figures recalled here include the Zionist Yitzhak Sadeh, the U.S. Supreme Court judge Felix Frankfurter, the classicist and wit Maurice Bowra, the philosopher J. L. Austin, and the literary critic Edmund Wilson. For this edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people.


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  •  Paperback | 528 pages
  •  140 x 216 x 36.58mm | 454g
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  •  New Jersey, United States
  •  English


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"Berlin was one of the foremost intellectuals in the English language--one of the finest historians of ideas in the latter half of the century and a rightly celebrated political thinker. . . . These essays tell us about him as well as his subjects."--Mitchell Cohen, City University of New York 

Table of contents

List of Illustrations xi Foreword by Hermione Lee xv Author's Preface to the First Edition xxxi Editor's Preface xxxv 

Winston Churchill in 1940 1 
Hubert Henderson at All Souls 30 
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 37
Richard Pares 50 
Chaim Weizmann 57 
Felix Frankfurter at Oxford 97
 Aldous Huxley 108
 L. B. Namier 121
 Maurice Bowra 148 
J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy 156
 John Petrov Plamenatz 177 Auberon Herbert 187 
Einstein and Israel 195 
Where Was I? 211 
Maynard and Lydia Keynes 218 
Nahum Goldmann 225 
Memories of Brief Meetings with Ben-Gurion 235 
Martin Cooper 243 
Yitzhak Sadeh 252 
Adam von Trott 269
 David Cecil 273 
Edmund Wilson at Oxford 283
 Memories of Virginia Woolf 298
 Alexander and Salome Halpern 304
 Jewish Oxford 323 Herbert Hart 330 
Corpuscle 337 Stephen Spender 347
 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 356 
Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life 433

 Afterword by Noel Annan 441 Index 465 

Review quote

"Welcoming and rewarding... [Berlin] is at his most conversational. This splendid book bring[s] the past to life."--Peter Stansky, New York Times Book Review "[Berlin's] writing has all the elan of conversation. [His] sense of humor ... Preserves a frank delight in human contradiction."--V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books "Contains many amusing and revealing anecdotes."--Dan Jacobson, Times Literary Supplement "An amazingly enjoyable book."--Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman "Marvellously good reading."--Alan Ryan, Sunday Times (London) "A thrilling and agreeable work... [W]armly commended."--Peter Jay, Washington Post Book World "An enthralling collection... It is hard to think of any other writer who is so penetrating, so amusing, and yet so entirely free of malice."--Anthony Storr, Spectator "Marvellous... It is one of Berlin's most endearing characteristics that he can admire so many utterly diverse people, that he can tell us about them all, and see the poi...show more

About Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the leading intellectual historians of the twentieth century and the founding president of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His many books include The Hedgehog and the Fox, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton). 





Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), first president of the State of Israel and founder of the institute

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The Weizmann Institute of Science (Hebrew: מכון ויצמן למדע‎ Machon Weizmann LeMada) is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli universities in that it offers only graduate and postgraduate...
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  • Hanching Chung 我的以色列建國群英方面的知識,多由讀柏林傳、及其他相關個人回憶所得:Berlin also contributed a number of essays on leading intellectuals and political figures of his time, including Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Chaim Weizmann. Eighteen of these character sketches were published together as "Personal Impressions" (1980; 2nd ed., with four additional essays, 1998; 3rd ed., with a further ten essays, 2014).[38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin
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  • Hanching Chung 這本書個新版的出版商都不同,Personal Impressions, Hogarth Press, 1980. 2nd ed., Pimlico, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7126-6601-5. 3rd ed., 2014, Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-15770-2. Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin edited by Henry Hardy, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2009.


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