Liberty: Incorporating 'Four Essays on Liberty' - Tapa dura

From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty "[P]ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty: "[P]ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty: "[P]ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty: "[P]ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty: "[P]ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer From reviews of Four Essays on Liberty: " P ractically every paragraph introduces us to half a dozen new ideas and as many thinkers--the landscape flashes past, peopled with familiar and unfamiliar people, all arguing incessantly. It is all a very long way from the austere eloquence of Mill's marvellous essay On Liberty, with which this collection's title seems to challenge comparison; but it is a measure of the stature of these essays that they stand such a comparison."--Alan Ryan, New Society "These famous essays...are informed by that radical humanism, in the truest sense of that impoverished word, which has attached Sir Isaiah so closely to such nineteenth-century figures as Herzen and Mill."--Philip Toynbee, Observer

"Liberty" is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism. Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy, has incorporated a fifth essay, as Berlin wished, and added further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together. He also describes the gestation of the book and throws further biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawn from his unpublished writings.