In Search of Isaiah Berlin

Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Isaiah Berlin's principal editor, and one of his literary trustees. He began editing Berlin in the mid-1970s (while a graduate student at Wolfson). Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full time on Berlin since 1990, and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters – the last volume of which (Affirming: Letters 1975-1997, co-edited with Mark Pottle) was published in September 2015 by Chatto.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Genius and the Pedant1. The BeginningMaking Books2. A Project is Born3. Philosophical Letters, or, Cold Feet4. Selected Writings5. An Unremarkable Decade6. The Crooked Timber of Humanity7. The Magus of the North8. The Sense of RealityProbing Ideas9. Not Angels or Lunatics: Berlin on Human Nature10. Pluralism and Religion11. The Moral Core and the Human Horizon12. The End13. EpilogueAppendix: A Posthumous Letter to BerlinReferences and AsidesSelect Biographical GlossaryIndex

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