Moderation or Death
Christopher Hitchens: Isaiah Berlin, 26 November 1998
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,0 7011 6325 9 Show More
by Michael Ignatieff.
Chatto, 386 pp., £20, October 1998,
The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,0 7195 5476 4 Show More
by György Dalos.
Murray, 250 pp., £17.95, September 2002,
“... much of contradiction as of tautology. (And perhaps of want of originality: Berlin’s favourite, Benjamin Constant, proposed a distinction between the ‘liberty of the ancients’ and the ‘liberty of the moderns’; T.H. Green spoke of liberty in the ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, and the same antithesis is strongly present in Hayek’s Road to ... ”
