The sense of reality

Description

Isaiah Berlin's The Sense of Reality at last makes available an important body of previously unknown work by one of our leading historians of ideas and one of the finest essayists writing in English. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide. The subjects explored include realism in history, judgment in politics, the history of socialism, the nature and impact of Marxism, the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics, Russian notions of artistic commitment, and the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of historians being able to re-create a bygone epoch, is a superb centerpiece.

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Other Editions

• The sense of reality: studies in ideas and their historyFarrar, Straus and Giroux1997-01-01
• The sense of realityChatto & Windus1996-01-01
• THE SENSE OF REALITYHardcoverFarrar, Straus and Giroux New York1996-01-01
• The sense of realityPimlico1997-01-01
• The Sense of RealityFarrar, Straus and Giroux1998-12-26
• El sentido de la realidadPaperbackTaurus1999-04-01