Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty. (Reviews).(Brief Article)

From: Contemporary Review | Date: May 1, 2002 | Copyright information

Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty. Isaiah Berlin. Henry Hardy, editor. Chatto & Windus. [pounds sterling]20.00 182 pages. ISBN 0-701-17297-5. These six lectures by Sir Isaiah Berlin were first delivered on the BBC Radio's Third Programme (now Radio Three) in 1952. What made them famous was not just the lecturer's unique voice or his rapid delivery but the fact that he did not read from a typescript. His six subjects were: Helvetius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel, Sai...

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