Princeton is pleased to return to print Isaia Berlin's essays on three uncelebrated thinkers--Vico, Hamann, and Herder--which have been edited by Hardy to introduce this ...

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made".--Immanuel Kant. Philosopher Isaiah Berlin explores the complex, radical changes that have swept ...

One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series ...

"The essays collected in this new volume show Isaiah Berlin on his most lucid and accessible form. These shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point ...

Essays discuss realism in history, political judgment, the impact of Marxism, and the origins of nationalism