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 ...

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

"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 ...

In the first section of the book Isaiah Berlin studies the philosophical ideas of Giovanni Battista Vico, a profound and original thinker, who, after being overshadowed by ...

"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 ...