Concepts & Categories - Philosophical Essays, Isaiah Berlin: Hardback

By Isaiah Berlin.

Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1978. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 202 pages.

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Some light wear/fading to dustjacket around edges. No names or writing.

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.

(Bindery shelves B1)