出版社: Oxford University Press
副标题: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
出版年: 2002-3-7
页数: 416
定价: USD 34.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780199249893
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important—Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance—this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can b...
Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important—Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance—this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be."
Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has revised the text, incorporating a fifth essay that Berlin himself had wanted to include. He has also added further pieces that bear on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, in an extended preface and in appendices drawn from Berlin's unpublished writings, he exhibits some of the biographical sources of Berlin's lifelong preoccupation with liberalism. These additions help us to grasp the nature of Berlin's "inner citadel," as he called it—the core of personal conviction from which some of his most influential writing sprung.
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作者简介 · · · · · ·
Sir Isaiah Berlin was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He excelled as an essayist, lecturer and conversationalist; and as a brilliant speaker who delivered, rapidly and spontaneously, richly allusive and coherently structured material, whether for a lecture series at Oxford University or as a broadca...
Sir Isaiah Berlin was a philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the twentieth century. He excelled as an essayist, lecturer and conversationalist; and as a brilliant speaker who delivered, rapidly and spontaneously, richly allusive and coherently structured material, whether for a lecture series at Oxford University or as a broadcaster on the BBC Third Programme, usually without a script. Many of his essays and lectures were later collected in book form.
Born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire, he was the first person of Jewish descent to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. From 1957 to 1967, he was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1963 to 1964. In 1966, he helped to found Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its first President. He was knighted in 1957, and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1971. He was President of the British Academy from 1974 to 1978. He also received the 1979 Jerusalem Prize for his writings on individual freedom. Berlin's work on liberal theory has had a lasting influence.
Berlin is best known for his essay Two Concepts of Liberty, delivered in 1958 as his inaugural lecture as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford. He defined negative liberty as the absence of constraints on, or interference with, agents' possible action. Greater "negative freedom" meant fewer restrictions on possible action. Berlin associated positive liberty with the idea of self-mastery, or the capacity to determine oneself, to be in control of one's destiny. While Berlin granted that both concepts of liberty represent valid human ideals, as a matter of history the positive concept of liberty has proven particularly susceptible to political abuse.
Berlin contended that under the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant and G. W. F. Hegel (all committed to the positive concept of liberty), European political thinkers often equated liberty with forms of political discipline or constraint. This became politically dangerous when notions of positive liberty were, in the nineteenth century, used to defend nationalism, self-determination and the Communist idea of collective rational control over human destiny. Berlin argued that, following this line of thought, demands for freedom paradoxically become demands for forms of collective control and discipline – those deemed necessary for the "self-mastery" or self-determination of nations, classes, democratic communities, and even humanity as a whole. There is thus an elective affinity, for Berlin, between positive liberty and political totalitarianism.
Conversely, negative liberty represents a different, perhaps safer, understanding of the concept of liberty. Its proponents (such as Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) insisted that constraint and discipline were the antithesis of liberty and so were (and are) less prone to confusing liberty and constraint in the manner of the philosophical harbingers of modern totalitarianism. It is this concept of Negative Liberty that Isaiah Berlin supported. It dominated heavily his early chapters in his third lecture.
This negative liberty is central to the claim for toleration due to incommensurability. This concept is mirrored in the work of Joseph Raz.
Berlin's espousal of negative liberty, his hatred of totalitarianism and his experience of Russia in the revolution and through his contact with the poet Anna Akhmatova made him an enemy of the Soviet Union and he was one of the leading public intellectuals in the ideological battle against Communism during the Cold War.
目录 · · · · · ·
Five Essays on Liberty
Introduction
Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
Historical Inevitability
Two Concepts of Liberty
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Five Essays on Liberty
Introduction
Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
Historical Inevitability
Two Concepts of Liberty
John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life
From Hope and Fear Set Free
Other Writings on Liberty
Liberty
The Birth of Greek Individualism
Final Retrospect
Autobiographical Appendices
The Purpose Justifies the Ways
A Letter to George Kennan
Notes on Prejudice
Berlin and his Critics by Ian Harris
Index
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该书是Four Essays on Liberty一书的修订增补本 | 来自jumaomao | 2010-07-15 10:37:11 |
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18 有用 大清国的猫托邦 2017-11-08 15:24:33
昨天和刘擎老师就本书第39页里面的一段话争论了一下午,结果发现,我们使用的是不同的版本,而且不同版本之间有不少出入。后来,我致信伯林文集编辑Henry Hardy。他告诉我,重印本会不断纠正前面版本的错误,以下是他发给我的纠正目录:http://t.cn/RlluUU7 @2017-11-08 15:24:33
2 有用 苏芒 2014-02-12 22:41:25
伯林是个思想史的好老师,是少有的会像演讲稿一样安排内容的思想史作者,总是清晰地告诉读者他要讨论的是什么问题。最爱的一篇是The Birth of Greek Individualism. 前面的编辑手记一定要读,非常赞!
0 有用 阿米 2021-08-17 14:29:35
中英一起看的。读完了,大受启发大受震撼,把自由的概念啊,形成啊,政体啊分析地好清楚啊!虽然有一些部分还可能不是很懂。读完挺佩服John Mill的🙏摘一句不错的话:“to realize the relative validity of one‘s conviction’s and stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civil... 中英一起看的。读完了,大受启发大受震撼,把自由的概念啊,形成啊,政体啊分析地好清楚啊!虽然有一些部分还可能不是很懂。读完挺佩服John Mill的🙏摘一句不错的话:“to realize the relative validity of one‘s conviction’s and stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.” (展开)
0 有用 我有一个小咪 2019-04-19 09:57:06
Although Sir Isaiah Berlin has shown his apparent indifference to values in history, such as freedom and justice, and holds a superficial attitude towards values' conflict, still he displays the outst... Although Sir Isaiah Berlin has shown his apparent indifference to values in history, such as freedom and justice, and holds a superficial attitude towards values' conflict, still he displays the outstanding taste of a Classic liberalist——a writing style of prudent and fluent, and most important, explicit sightseeing and distinction. (展开)
0 有用 Archie 2021-10-25 06:56:17
按柏林,古希腊的个人主义显于公元前4-3世纪拐角。但是令人困惑的问题是,从柏拉图到芝诺等人的转变过程中,到底发生了什么。虽然柏林讨论着古希腊个人主义,但他引用的却是罗斯托夫采夫等人,而非古朗士与格罗兹。后者从城邦内部社会生活的变化中,讨论了个人主义是如何在城邦兴起的。至于结尾以贵族抱怨城邦生活为例,实际上有些不适合。雅典内部纷争是从梭伦时期就一直蛰伏着,而公元前5世纪下叶以降的战争,损耗的正是富裕... 按柏林,古希腊的个人主义显于公元前4-3世纪拐角。但是令人困惑的问题是,从柏拉图到芝诺等人的转变过程中,到底发生了什么。虽然柏林讨论着古希腊个人主义,但他引用的却是罗斯托夫采夫等人,而非古朗士与格罗兹。后者从城邦内部社会生活的变化中,讨论了个人主义是如何在城邦兴起的。至于结尾以贵族抱怨城邦生活为例,实际上有些不适合。雅典内部纷争是从梭伦时期就一直蛰伏着,而公元前5世纪下叶以降的战争,损耗的正是富裕阶层。日益趋平化的社会图景,对于往昔富裕者而言,如若无法通过政治获取权力与声望,那么以巧妙的方式回归自我,似乎是很直接的选择。 (展开)
0 有用 Ιάννης Ξενάκης 2024-05-14 23:16:10 广东
升级版密尔
0 有用 das Seyn 2022-08-11 00:58:18
其实 Berlin 说,Two Concepts 那篇文章,主要是历史性的辨析,而非哲学性的辨析。
0 有用 Archie 2021-10-25 06:56:17
按柏林,古希腊的个人主义显于公元前4-3世纪拐角。但是令人困惑的问题是,从柏拉图到芝诺等人的转变过程中,到底发生了什么。虽然柏林讨论着古希腊个人主义,但他引用的却是罗斯托夫采夫等人,而非古朗士与格罗兹。后者从城邦内部社会生活的变化中,讨论了个人主义是如何在城邦兴起的。至于结尾以贵族抱怨城邦生活为例,实际上有些不适合。雅典内部纷争是从梭伦时期就一直蛰伏着,而公元前5世纪下叶以降的战争,损耗的正是富裕... 按柏林,古希腊的个人主义显于公元前4-3世纪拐角。但是令人困惑的问题是,从柏拉图到芝诺等人的转变过程中,到底发生了什么。虽然柏林讨论着古希腊个人主义,但他引用的却是罗斯托夫采夫等人,而非古朗士与格罗兹。后者从城邦内部社会生活的变化中,讨论了个人主义是如何在城邦兴起的。至于结尾以贵族抱怨城邦生活为例,实际上有些不适合。雅典内部纷争是从梭伦时期就一直蛰伏着,而公元前5世纪下叶以降的战争,损耗的正是富裕阶层。日益趋平化的社会图景,对于往昔富裕者而言,如若无法通过政治获取权力与声望,那么以巧妙的方式回归自我,似乎是很直接的选择。 (展开)
0 有用 Raison d'Être 2021-08-28 18:42:48
与译林内容一致。除了删改字词
0 有用 阿米 2021-08-17 14:29:35
中英一起看的。读完了,大受启发大受震撼,把自由的概念啊,形成啊,政体啊分析地好清楚啊!虽然有一些部分还可能不是很懂。读完挺佩服John Mill的🙏摘一句不错的话:“to realize the relative validity of one‘s conviction’s and stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civil... 中英一起看的。读完了,大受启发大受震撼,把自由的概念啊,形成啊,政体啊分析地好清楚啊!虽然有一些部分还可能不是很懂。读完挺佩服John Mill的🙏摘一句不错的话:“to realize the relative validity of one‘s conviction’s and stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.” (展开)