The Proper Study Of Mankind

<p><b>&#145;He becomes everyman&#146;s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas&#146; <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br><br>Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the finest writers. <i><b>The Proper Study Of Mankind</b></i> selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today.<br><br>The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli Tolstoy Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism historicism Fascism relativism irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them so that abstractions are brought alive. <br><br><b>EDITED BY HENRY HARDY AND ROGER HAUSHEER AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDREW MARR</b></p>