The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350121430
ISBN-10: 1350121436
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350121436
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
By examining his views on such topics as contingency, freedom and authenticity, Lyons reveals Berlin's surprising contemporary relevance to the debates that continue to dominate philosophy and intellectual history
Notă biografică
Johnny Lyons is a former lecturer in Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and an expert in the thought of Isaiah BerlinHenry Hardy is Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the editor of the writings of Isaiah Berlin, has edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters. He is the author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin (I.B.Tauris, 2018)
Cuprins
PrefaceForeword by Henry HardyAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPart 1: General Introduction Chapter 1 - The Nature of Berlin's Political Philosophy Part 2: Philosophy Chapter 2 - In the beginning. Chapter 3 - Kant's Copernican Revolution Chapter 4 - The Humanistic Turn Chapter 5 - Taking History Seriously Chapter 6 - Interlude: Taking Stock Chapter 7 - Philosophy, History and Human Understanding Part Three: Contingency Chapter 8 - Philosophy and Belief Chapter 9 - The Logic Choppers Chapter 10 - The Postmodern Appropriation Chapter 11 - The Hedgehog's Revenge Chapter 12 - What Are We Left With Chapter 13 - Reason, History and Liberalism Part Four: Freedom Chapter 14 - Theory versus Practice Chapter 15 - The Central Problem of Freedom Chapter 16 - Is Determinism Liveable? Chapter 17 - Truth, Freedom and Liberalism Chapter 18 - Reimagining the Point and Authority of Philosophy Part 5: Authenticity Chapter 19 - Framing the Debate Chapter 20 - Three Romantics: Hamann, Herder and Kant Chapter 21 - Smashing the Jigsaw Chapter 22 - The Liberalism of Romanticism Epilogue Bibliography Index
Recenzii
A thorough and trenchant piece of scholarship, moving over a vast range to match that of Berlin himself.... The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin should pique the interest of those who perhaps need to do some soul-searching and return to a philosophical justification for the liberalism.... A book like Lyons's serves a function beyond the explication of the thought of one of liberalism's most contemplative, meticulous and erudite defenders.
[A] deeply impressive book ... Broad in its field of references - the book quotes poets and novelists and journalists as well as a huge range of philosophers - it's an exemplary work of humanistic thought.
As a convinced liberal, I confess that I am not an entirely objective reader when it comes to Isaiah Berlin, though this also makes me a critical reader of books about him. Johnny Lyons shows, in a most attractive and readable style, how Berlin was not just a student of the history of ideas, but a product of that history, as well as a very significant contributor to the world of ideas. If you want to get a sense, not only of the key elements of Isaiah Berlin's thinking, but of why he is so important, you could not do better than to read this new book. It not only sets out Berlin's ideas, but gives context to them, and that provides a particular depth and richness to the work, and to an understanding of Berlin.
Isaiah Berlin is generally recognised as one of the most important political thinkers -and best essayists - of the last hundred years. But what is less well known is that his celebrated defence of pluralism and liberalism is informed by an original if not fully explicit conception of philosophy. In The Philosophy of Isaiah BerlinJohnny Lyons excavates the hidden theoretical foundations of Berlin's ideas, transforming our understanding of his political thought. In linked chapters on philosophy, contingency, freedom and authenticity, Lyons exhibits not only a mastery of Berlin's writings but a convincing appreciation of their place in the wider debates that continue to dominate philosophy, political theory and intellectual history. His book provides an exceptionally clear and faithful account of Berlin's philosophical outlook as well as an accessible and lively introduction to philosophy as a humanistic discipline.
The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons is a deeply engaged encounter with the writings of Isaiah Berlin. Based on the assumption that Berlin's work was grounded in a unified and wide-ranging philosophical perspective, the book provides one of the few sustained systematic accounts of that perspective, demonstrating the originality and depth of Berlin's ideas. Lyons relates Berlin's thought to some of the most urgent questions of contemporary philosophy in an impressively scholarly yet accessible manner.
Every now and then in life one encounters a book that stands head and shoulders above its surroundings. For me Johnny Lyons's study of Isaiah Berlin's ideas is such a book. Its style and content gripped me from the start, and the author seems to me to display considerable originality and ingenuity in understanding the various threads of Berlin's thought, uniting them, and displaying the result as a consistent, satisfying whole that tells us something new and profound about the human condition.
Lyons's book draws our attention anew to one of the keenest philosophical minds of the twentieth century, or indeed of any century. Isaiah Berlin was unduly modest about his philosophical writings, and in this original, lucid and compelling study, Lyons shows that Berlin was a far more consistent and integrated thinker than perhaps even he himself realised. His book is required reading for anyone interested in Berlin, and in the life of the mind.
Lyons's book is a noteworthy contribution to Berlin scholarship.
If you thought the philosophical legacy of Isaiah Berlin came to little more than his renowned distinction between positive and negative liberty, Johnny Lyons's The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin will make you think again. Central to Lyons's discussion is Berlin's thesis of value pluralism, which Lyons places firmly in a dialectical and revealing conversation with Rorty, Dworkin, Putnam and others, and for which he makes a most persuasive case. An elegant, scholarly and engaging introduction to the thought of a neglected philosopher, The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin is in its own right a significant and sophisticated treatise in political philosophy.
One couldn't wish for a more enlightening or readable account of Berlin's philosophy. Beginners will learn from this excellent book and Berlin aficionados will be stimulated by it. It is hard to imagine anyone reading Lyons on Berlin and not wanting to read more Berlin or, for that matter, more Lyons. Highly recommended.
Isaiah Berlin was an intellectual colossus who ranged over disciplines and topics with great verve and vivacity. No academic straightjacket could ever restrain his breadth of thought and thinking. The same could be said for Johnny Lyons's account of the philosophy of Isaiah Berlin as it excavates the true essence of Berlin's outlook.... A magisterial work.
Lyons makes the best possible case that Berlin never really abandoned philosophy, but instead switched to a different way of doing it.
Lyons regards philosophy as an engagement that involves more than the parsing of terms that is found so frequently today, and instead requires a wholehearted commitment to truth. From this perspective, Lyons interprets Berlin's essays as instances of philosophical inquiry for others to emulate, as they exemplify a searching exploration of questions that are, if not timeless, persistently perplexing....Lyons's book is a noteworthy contribution to Berlin scholarship and merits the attention of anyone interested in these issues.
[A] deeply impressive book ... Broad in its field of references - the book quotes poets and novelists and journalists as well as a huge range of philosophers - it's an exemplary work of humanistic thought.
As a convinced liberal, I confess that I am not an entirely objective reader when it comes to Isaiah Berlin, though this also makes me a critical reader of books about him. Johnny Lyons shows, in a most attractive and readable style, how Berlin was not just a student of the history of ideas, but a product of that history, as well as a very significant contributor to the world of ideas. If you want to get a sense, not only of the key elements of Isaiah Berlin's thinking, but of why he is so important, you could not do better than to read this new book. It not only sets out Berlin's ideas, but gives context to them, and that provides a particular depth and richness to the work, and to an understanding of Berlin.
Isaiah Berlin is generally recognised as one of the most important political thinkers -and best essayists - of the last hundred years. But what is less well known is that his celebrated defence of pluralism and liberalism is informed by an original if not fully explicit conception of philosophy. In The Philosophy of Isaiah BerlinJohnny Lyons excavates the hidden theoretical foundations of Berlin's ideas, transforming our understanding of his political thought. In linked chapters on philosophy, contingency, freedom and authenticity, Lyons exhibits not only a mastery of Berlin's writings but a convincing appreciation of their place in the wider debates that continue to dominate philosophy, political theory and intellectual history. His book provides an exceptionally clear and faithful account of Berlin's philosophical outlook as well as an accessible and lively introduction to philosophy as a humanistic discipline.
The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons is a deeply engaged encounter with the writings of Isaiah Berlin. Based on the assumption that Berlin's work was grounded in a unified and wide-ranging philosophical perspective, the book provides one of the few sustained systematic accounts of that perspective, demonstrating the originality and depth of Berlin's ideas. Lyons relates Berlin's thought to some of the most urgent questions of contemporary philosophy in an impressively scholarly yet accessible manner.
Every now and then in life one encounters a book that stands head and shoulders above its surroundings. For me Johnny Lyons's study of Isaiah Berlin's ideas is such a book. Its style and content gripped me from the start, and the author seems to me to display considerable originality and ingenuity in understanding the various threads of Berlin's thought, uniting them, and displaying the result as a consistent, satisfying whole that tells us something new and profound about the human condition.
Lyons's book draws our attention anew to one of the keenest philosophical minds of the twentieth century, or indeed of any century. Isaiah Berlin was unduly modest about his philosophical writings, and in this original, lucid and compelling study, Lyons shows that Berlin was a far more consistent and integrated thinker than perhaps even he himself realised. His book is required reading for anyone interested in Berlin, and in the life of the mind.
Lyons's book is a noteworthy contribution to Berlin scholarship.
If you thought the philosophical legacy of Isaiah Berlin came to little more than his renowned distinction between positive and negative liberty, Johnny Lyons's The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin will make you think again. Central to Lyons's discussion is Berlin's thesis of value pluralism, which Lyons places firmly in a dialectical and revealing conversation with Rorty, Dworkin, Putnam and others, and for which he makes a most persuasive case. An elegant, scholarly and engaging introduction to the thought of a neglected philosopher, The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin is in its own right a significant and sophisticated treatise in political philosophy.
One couldn't wish for a more enlightening or readable account of Berlin's philosophy. Beginners will learn from this excellent book and Berlin aficionados will be stimulated by it. It is hard to imagine anyone reading Lyons on Berlin and not wanting to read more Berlin or, for that matter, more Lyons. Highly recommended.
Isaiah Berlin was an intellectual colossus who ranged over disciplines and topics with great verve and vivacity. No academic straightjacket could ever restrain his breadth of thought and thinking. The same could be said for Johnny Lyons's account of the philosophy of Isaiah Berlin as it excavates the true essence of Berlin's outlook.... A magisterial work.
Lyons makes the best possible case that Berlin never really abandoned philosophy, but instead switched to a different way of doing it.
Lyons regards philosophy as an engagement that involves more than the parsing of terms that is found so frequently today, and instead requires a wholehearted commitment to truth. From this perspective, Lyons interprets Berlin's essays as instances of philosophical inquiry for others to emulate, as they exemplify a searching exploration of questions that are, if not timeless, persistently perplexing....Lyons's book is a noteworthy contribution to Berlin scholarship and merits the attention of anyone interested in these issues.