The Deepest Strand. Isiah Berlin and the Intellectual History of Russia

Ackroyd John ()
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Ackroyd John: University of Bradford, UK.

Central and Eastern European Review, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-34

Abstract: Isaiah Berlin’s essays on the nineteenth-century Russian intelligentsia throw light not only on their subject – the role of that group in preparing the ideational ground for the coming revolutions – but more broadly on Berlin’s central philosophical preoccupations and historiographical and hermeneutical assumptions and method. I try to show this – the centrality to his overall project of Berlin’s work on the Russians – by contextualising that work within the broader framework of his philosophical and historical thought.

Keywords: Isaiah Berlin; the Russian intelligentsia; value monism and pluralism; ideational fanaticism; political Utopianism; historiography and hermeneutics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/caeer-2020-0011

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