Freedom and Its Betrayal : : Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition / / Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Berlin, Isaiah,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hardy, Henry,; Krause, Enrique.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Updated edition with a New paper New Foreword
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom-views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and confirmed Berlin's reputation as an intellectual who could speak to the public in an appealing and compelling way. A recording of only one of the lectures has survived, but Henry Hardy has recreated them all here from BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated drafts. Hardy has also added, as an appendix to this new edition, a revealing text of "Two Concepts" based on Berlin's earliest surviving drafts, which throws light on some of the issues raised by the essay. And, in a new foreword, historian Enrique Krauze traces the origin of Berlin's idea of negative freedom to his rejection of the notion that the creation of the State of Israel left Jews with only two choices: to emigrate to Israel or to renounce Jewish identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Krauze, Enrique -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- Introduction -- Helvétius -- Rousseau -- Fichte -- Hegel -- Saint-Simon -- Maistre -- APPENDIX TO THE SECOND EDITION: 'Two Concepts of Liberty': Early Texts -- REFERENCES -- Index