Summoning the Ghost of Isaiah Berlin; Letters 1928-1946: Isaiah Berlin

From: Forward | Date: October 29, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Stavans, Ilan
Forward
10-29-2004
A couple of years ago, while visiting the offices of The Atlantic Monthly,
I commented on my admiration of Isaiah Berlin to a friend of mine, Cullen
Murphy, the magazine's executive editor. Few modern thinkers strike me as
being as stimulating, coherent and lucid as Berlin. His life-long study of
freedom as a curtailed human endeavor, his analysis of the roots on the
Enlightenment and his emblematic life as an academic at Oxford all have
been continued sources of stimulation. Finally I admitted to Murphy my deep
wish to have met Berlin himself. I brought up the ...

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