Volume 25, Number 10 · June 15, 1978
The Undefeated
By Helen Muchnic
Russian Thinkers
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Aileen Kelly, by Henry Hardy
Viking, 312 pp., $14.95
In a brief preface to this book, Isaiah Berlin seems to show some reluctance about its publication. 'The essays collected in this volume,' he writes, 'the first of four, were written or delivered as lectures, on various occasions over almost thirty years, and therefore possess less unity of theme than if they had been conceived in relation to one another.' If this remark represents a serious scruple, the editors must be congratulated for having overcome it and made more easily available these eloquent, masterful essays, hitherto scattered in periodicals, anthologies, and introductions to others' books.
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