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Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition
"A model of objective clarity."—Richard Charques, Times Literary Supplement
"[Berlin's] book, a perennial classic, has all the virtues of Berlin himself: charm, erudition, and (occasionally) grandiloquence."—Peter E. Gordon, New Republic
"The best brief account of the life and thought of Marx."—Saturday Review
"Exceptional . . . . [A]s a portrait of the man and the intellectual climate of the mid-nineteenth century it is, perhaps, the finest we have."—Chimen Abramsky, Jewish Chronicle
"[Berlin's] accounts of Marx's theses are sometimes more effective than Marx's own words, and his descriptions of Marx as a man are remarkably vivid."—H. B. Acton, Political Studies
"Berlin's attitude to his subject is exemplary, and on the whole it is the best introduction to it that we have. . . . [The book] makes Marx intelligible, both as a person and as a thinker."—A. L. Rowse, Political Quarterly
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Isaiah Berlin
1. Life
Isaiah Berlin was born in in Riga (then capital of the Govenorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire, now capital of Latvia), the only surviving child (after a stillborn daughter) of Mendel Berlin, a prosperous Russian Jewish timber merchant, and his wife Marie, née Volshonok. In the family moved to the forestry town of Andreapol (then in Russia’s Pskov Govenorate), and in to Petrograd (now St Petersburg), where they remained through both Russian Revolutions of , which Isaiah would remember witnessing. Despite early harassment by the Bolsheviks, the family was permitted to return to Riga with Latvian citizenship in ; from there they emigrated, in , to Britain. They lived first in suburban and then in central London; Isaiah attended St Paul’s School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied Greats (classical languages, ancient history, and philosophy) and PPE (philosophy, politics and economics), taking Firsts in both. In he was ap
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Isaiah Berlin
British philosopher (–)
This article is about the 20th-century philosopher. For the 18th-century rabbi, see Isaiah Berlin (rabbi).
Sir Isaiah BerlinOM CBE FBA (24 May/6 June [4] – 5 November ) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.[5] Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially by his principal editor from , Henry Hardy.
Born in Riga (now the capital of Latvia, then a part of the Russian Empire) in , he moved to Petrograd, Russia, at the age of six, where he witnessed the revolutions of In , his family moved to the UK, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[6] In , at the age of twenty-three, Berlin was elected to