The Spectator, July 22nd, 2006
POLITICAL IDEAS IN THE ROMANTIC AGE : THEIR RISE AND INFLUENCE ON MODERN THOUGHT by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy Chatto, £25, pp. 352, ISBN 0761179090 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 This book contains part of the text on which Isaiah Berlin based the lectures that he gave at Bryn Mawr College in the spring of 1952. It is edited by Henry Hardy, the learned and critical guardian of Berlin's intellectual legacy. Berlin's output was tremendous, but he has left us with no great synthesis of his works. Had he not rejected any form of 'monism', the theory that there is one funda...
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