This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his intellectual development, allowing a reappraisal of his theory of liberalism.

Autorentext
ARIE DUBNOV Lecturer in the History Department at Stanford, USA.

Inhalt
Explaining the Liberal Predicament PART I: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING WITTY A Young Boy from Riga Becoming a Russian-Jew The Realist Appeal PART II: THE PINK LIBERAL Mr. Jericho's Piercing Eyes 'I Never Don't Moralize' Karl Marx PART III: THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN PLURALIST Collisions On Moses and Joshua Shifting Horizons 'This mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away'