Sir Isaiah Berlin
Sir Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga in 1909 and died in the United Kingdom
in 1997. In 1915 the family moved to Petrograd and from Petrograd
to England in 1921. Sir Isaiah Berlin was a pupil of St Paul's school and
then studied at Corpus Christi College,Oxford. He was a world renowned
Philosopher and was awarded many prizes. He was preoccupied with free will
and determinism.
Oxford
Fellow of All Souls
Fellow of New College
Professor of Social and Political Theory
Founding President of Wolfson College
Published Works
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Karl Marx
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The Age of Enlightenment
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Four Essays on Liberty
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Vico and Herder
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Russian Thinkers
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Concepts and Categories
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Against the Current
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Personal Impressions
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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The Sense of Reality
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The Magus of the North
A memorial plaque has been placed
on the wall of the house where he lived in Riga.
The houses in Alberta street
where Isaiah lived have the beautiful Eisenstein facades. Eisenstein was
a civil engineer and the father of the famous Russian film maker Sergei
Eisenstein.
Alberta Street where Sir Isaiah
Berlin lived.
Copyright©1999 Arlene Beare
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