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If it were possible to add to a reputation already so considerable, these essays would do it.... Urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and writerly elegance ... are satisfyingly and instructively here present again. A. C. Grayling, Financial Times For anyone wanting to understand the twists and turns of the history of ideas, this book will be indispensable. John Gray, New York Times Book Review Berlin offers a particularly important vision of human experience, and in particular, of political conduct.... Reading Berlin is like being made a party to a wonderful conversation, on equal terms. I know of no other twentieth-century thinker who conveys this sense. The Sense of Reality ... is a wonderful book. Jonathan Allen, South African Journal of Philosophy

Berlin offers a particularly important vision of human experience, and in particular, of political conduct.... Reading Berlin is like being made a party to a wonderful conversation, on equal terms. I know of no other twentieth-century thinker who conveys this sense. The Sense of Reality ... is a wonderful book. Jonathan Allen, South African Journal of Philosophy If it were possible to add to a reputation already so considerable, these essays would do it.... Urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and writerly elegance ... are satisfyingly and instructively here present again. A. C. Grayling, Financial Times For anyone wanting to understand the twists and turns of the history of ideas, this book will be indispensable. John Gray, New York Times Book Review

Berlin may be erudite, but he is not academic. He addresses his essays to the general reader, and he speaks with such infectious energy that he sweeps us up and carries us with him into territory that had seemed inaccessible. He becomes everyman's guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas. --Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books Berlin offers a particularly important vision of human experience, and in particular, of political conduct.... Reading Berlin is like being made a party to a wonderful conversation, on equal terms. I know of no other twentieth-century thinker who conveys this sense. The Sense of Reality ... is a wonderful book. Jonathan Allen, South African Journal of Philosophy

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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 and The Crooked Timber of Humanity (both Princeton).

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