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Princeton. 2008. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780691126951. Edited by Henry Hardy. With an introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss. 352 pages. paperback. Jacket image: details from 'The Tennis Court Oath, 20 June 1789' after Jacques Louis David. keywords: Philosophy Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is sometimes thought that the renowned essayist Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was incapable of writing a big book. But in fact he developed some of his most important essays - including Two Concepts of Liberty' and Historical Inevitability' - from a book-length manuscript that he intended to publish but later set aside. Published here for the first time, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age is the only book in which Berlin lays out in one continuous account most of his key insights about the history of ideas in the period that he made his own - the Romantic age. Distilling his formative early work in the history of ideas, the book also contains…
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Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought Paperback - 2008
by Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy (Editor); Introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss
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THE CENTRAL ISSUE of political philosophy is the question 'Why should any man obey any other man or body of men?' - or (what amounts to the same in the final analysis) 'Why should any man or body of men ever interfere with other men?'
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- Title Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought
- Author Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy (Editor); Introduction by Joshua L. Cherniss
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton/Oxford
- Date March 23, 2008
- ISBN 9780691126951 / 069112695X
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.86 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.18 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.01
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