{"title":"Isaiah Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIsaiah Berlin\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound explorations into political philosophy and the nuances of cultural history. His works delve into the complexities of ideas from diverse thinkers, examining how ideologies shape societies and individual freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful essays and analyses that bridge \u003cem\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003earts\u003c\/em\u003e, illuminating the interplay between intellectual history and human values. Berlin's writing invites reflection on the tensions between liberty and authority through vivid historical perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"russian-thinkers-by-isaiah-berlin-9780141442204","title":"Russian Thinkers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin witnessed the excesses of the Russian Revolution as a child, and in becoming one of the key liberal intellects of the last century, some of his most important contributions were on the subject of Russia and the concept of freedom. In the ten essays gathered here, Berlin addresses the great Russian minds of the nineteenth century—Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and Tolstoy—as well as exploring the political and social revolutions they inspired and responded to. Berlin himself describes this extraordinary outpouring as 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRussian Thinkers\u003c\/em\u003e offers profound insights into the ideas that shaped the thoughts and actions of these remarkable figures, providing a comprehensive look at a pivotal era in Russian intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46551295492332,"sku":"9780141442204","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9224023482238.jpg?v=1750000202"},{"product_id":"karl-marx-by-isaiah-berlin-9780691156507","title":"Karl Marx","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of \u003cem\u003eKarl Marx\u003c\/em\u003e has long been recognised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly lucid work of synthesis and exposition, the book introduces Marx's ideas, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCritical 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000659886316,"sku":"9780691156507","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/544384037df5fb9204ab8de105cc9da4.jpg?v=1773004818"},{"product_id":"political-ideas-in-the-romantic-age-by-isaiah-berlin-9781844139262","title":"Political Ideas In The Romantic Age","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsaiah Berlin's longest continuous work—and therefore of key importance to anyone interested in the history of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I was exhausted at the end, \u0026amp; yet I am sure that if ever I saw \u0026amp; heard anyone in a true state of inspiration it was then.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo wrote a listener to her friend after attending one of the lectures based on the book. \u003cem\u003ePolitical Ideas in the Romantic Age\u003c\/em\u003e is the text Berlin wrote for four of the lectures, delivered in 1952. He revised what he had written extensively afterwards but never published it. It is his longest work and also the only connected account he gave of his key insights into the history of the ideas that dominate the political arguments of our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs he put it in his Prologue, 'The age of which we speak was singularly rich in original conceptions; they transformed our world, and the words in which they were formulated speak to us still'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000707662060,"sku":"9781844139262","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/16205863482844.jpg?v=1763299294"},{"product_id":"the-hedgehog-and-the-fox-by-isaiah-berlin-9781474619707","title":"The Hedgehog And The Fox","description":"'Brilliant. Searching and profound' \u003cb\u003eE.H. Carr, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Beautifully written' \u003cb\u003eW. H. Auden, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Ingenious. 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