‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the

"The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays o

This book is wide ranging, penetrating, innovative and extremely readable. It includes Berlin's famous essays on liberty, pluralism and nationalism as well as s

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the