Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991
Paradise Lost
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
Knopf, 277 pp., $22.00
Everyone interested in the history of ideas owes a great debt not only to Sir Isaiah Berlin himself but also to his editor, Henry Hardy. It was Hardy who brought together a great many important scattered writings of Berlin's—hitherto scattered, sometimes in obscure places—and published them in the four-volume series collectively entitled Selected Essays (1978–1981). The present collection is essentially the fifth volume in the same series. (In the opening line of his preface, the editor describes it as 'in effect the fifth of four volumes' and, though this may seem an odd formulation, we can see what he means.)
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