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Intro -- Half-Title -- Series -- Dedication -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Genius and the Pedant -- 1 The Beginning -- MAKING BOOKS -- 2 A Project Is Born -- 3 Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet -- 4 Selected Writings -- 5 An Unremarkable Decade -- 6 The Crooked Timber of Humanity -- 7 The Magus of the North -- 8 The Sense of Reality -- PROBING IDEAS -- 9 Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature -- 10 Pluralism and Religion -- 11 The Moral Core and the Human Horizon -- 12 The End -- 13 Epilogue -- Appendix: A Posthumous Letter to Berlin -- References and Asides -- Select Biographical Glossary -- Index -- Plates -- Copyright.

Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other nineteenth-century thinker. A brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas and sets them in their context, explains why they were revolutionary in political and intellectual terms, and paints a memorable portrait of Marx's dramatic life and outsized personality. Berlin takes readers through Marx's years of adolescent rebellion and post-university communist agitation, the personal high point of the 1848 revolutions, and his later years of exile, political frustration, and intellectual effort. Critical yet sympathetic, Berlin's account illuminates a life without reproducing a legend. New features of this thoroughly revised edition include references for Berlin's quotations and allusions, Terrell Carver's assessment of the distinctiveness of Berlin's book, and a revised guide to further reading

Berlin (former professor of social and political theory, Oxford U., UK), well known for his political philosophy and its distinction between positive and negative freedoms, was less recognized as a Russian-Jewish migr . This collection of 10 essays gathers his writings on the USSR and includes his reflections on the work of Boris Pasternak and Osip

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Gray, John -- Editor's Preface -- 1. In Search of a Definition -- 2. The First Attack on Enlightenment -- 3. The True Fathers of Romanticism -- 4. The Restrained Romantics -- 5. Unbridled Romanticism -- 6. The Lasting Effects -- Appendix to the Second Edition -- References -- Index -- The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1952–2013

""Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.""--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between the ideas of the past and the social and political cataclysms of our own time: between the Platonic belief in absolute truth and the lure of authoritarianism; between the eighteenth-