England’s Isaiah
Perry Anderson, 20 December 1990
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,9780719547898 Show More
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,
“... standard of value, no conceivable truce, among them, any more than in the world of the great powers. The hope of a eudaimonist mediation between rival deities was the paltriest illusion of all. This Nietzschean note is wholly missing in Berlin. It is no accident that he should scarcely ever have alluded to Weber’s work, for all its absolute centrality ... ”