Isaiah Berlin

1909–1997

Latvian-born Sir Isaiah Berlin immigrated to the United Kingdom as a child and later became a prominent philosopher, political theorist, historian, author, and professor at Oxford University. His work was critical in shaping contemporary liberal thought.

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Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the Search for Identity

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At first the contrast between them must seem very sharp: the first a somewhat fantastic figure, an ambitious opportunist, a social and political adventurer, flamboyant, over-dressed, the epitome of…