📗 Libro en inglés A SENSE OF REALITY

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impast of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice ofnationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece. ''All the productions of Berlin''s long and distinguished career are characterised by urbanity, insight, profound scholarship and witty elegance. These traits are satisfyingly and instructively here present again.'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''They exude a generous, sympathetic and large-minded enthusiasm for all sorts of thinkers and all sorts of ideas that make them a continuous pleasure to read.'' TLS