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The Roots of Romanticism Book

Paperback. Pub Date: September. 2000 Pages: 171 Publisher: Random House The Roots of Romanticism at last makes available in PRINTED FORM Book of Isaiah Chapter Berlin's MOST Famous lecture series. The Mellon Lectures. Delivered in Washington in 1965. Recorded by The the BBC. And oadcast several times. A published version has been keenly awaited ever since the lectures were given. and indeed Berlin had always hoped to complete a book based upon them. But. despite extensive further work. this hope was not fulfilled. and this book is an edited transcript of his spoken words. For Berlin. the Romantics set in train a vast unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notions of objective truth and validity in ethics. with incalculable. all-pervasive results. As he said of them elsewhere: 'the world has never been the same since. and our poli...Read More

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  • Foyles

    The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional notion of objective truth in ethicsm with incalculable, all-pervasive results. In his unscripted tour de force Berlin surveys the myriad attempts to define romanticism, distils its essence, traces its development, and shows how its legacy permeates our outlook today.

  • ASDA

    A book containing the edited transcripts of the Mellon lecture series given by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin in Washington in 1965 on the subject of Romanticism. It is accompanied by a recording on compact disc of Berlin delivering the final lecture.

  • Pickabook

    Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (Editor)

  • 0712665447
  • 9780712665445
  • Isaiah Berlin
  • 7 September 2000
  • Pimlico
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 171
  • New edition
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