Isaiah Berlin, Building: Letters 1960-1975, a cura di Henry Hardy e Mark Pottle, Chatto& Windus
Risvolto
In the period covered here (1960-75) Isaiah Berlin
creates Wolfson College, Oxford; John F. Kennedy becomes US President
(and is assassinated); Berlin dines with JFK on the day he is told of
the Soviet missile bases in Cuba; the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war of 1967
creates problems that are still with us today; Richard M. Nixon succeeds
Johnson as US President and resigns over Watergate; and the long agony
of the Vietnam War grinds on in the background.
At the
same time Berlin publishes some of his most important work, including
Four Essays on Liberty - the key texts of his liberal pluralism - and
the essays later included in Vico and Herder. He talks on the radio,
appears on television and in documentary films and gives numerous
lectures, especially his celebrated Mellon Lectures, later published as
The Roots of Romanticism.
Behind these public events is a
constant stream of gossip and commentary, acerbic humour and warm
personal feeling. Berlin writes about an enormous range of topics to a
sometimes dazzling cast of correspondents. This new volume leaves no
doubt that Berlin is one of the very best letter-writers of the
twentieth century.
Arriva nelle librerie inglesi il terzo volume dell'epistolario del grande pensatore anticomunista. Dentro, retroscena e curiosità su come nacquero i suoi saggi libertari
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