England’s Isaiah
Perry Anderson, 20 December 1990
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,9780719547898 Show More
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy.
Murray, 276 pp., £18.95, October 1990,
“... of sententious parody. It was the school master Le Bas who instructed Anthony Powell’s Nicholas Jenkins in the adage ‘It takes all sorts to make a world,’ about the time Berlin was going up to Oxford. A few years later, Wittgenstein found it ‘a very beautiful saying’. Unlike him, the author of Personal Impressions and Against the Current has made an ... ”