Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Softcover

Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays.

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Buchbeschreibung Paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. XX, 209 p. Leicht berieben und leichte Randläsuren, Seiten angegilbt, sonst guter Zustand / slightly rubbed and light edge wear, pages yellowed, otherwise good condition. - This volume of Isaiah Berlin s essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its' main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions the concepts and categories that men bring to their existence, and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma. "He left the moral quality of his voice behind him, in the long tumbling paragraphs and the clauses within clauses of his best essays, and it is to these that we can turn when we need to remind ourselves what intellectual life can be: joyful, free of illusion, and vitally ¿live." Michael Ignatieff, The New York Review of Books "Being a man of the liveliest and most ingenious intellect, [Berlin] must wish that reason could do more to transform the human condition radically and quickly; being a man of common sense he knows it cannot." Edward Crankshaw, The Observer Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them Karl Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, Four Essays on Liberty, and The Crooked Timber of Humanity (Princeton). Dr. Henry Hardy, a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin s literary trustees. He has edited several other books by Berlin, including the posthumous The Roots of Romanticism (Princeton), and is currently preparing his remaining unpublished writings and letters for publication. / Contents Editor s Preface Author s Preface Introduction by Bernard Williams The Purpose of Philosophy Verification Empirical Propositions and Hypothetical Statements Logical Translation Equality The Concept of Scientific History Does Political Theory Still Exist? From Hope and Fear Set Free Index. ISBN 9780691002347 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338. Artikel-Nr. 1197758

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