Freedom and Its Betrayal

Six Enemies of Human Liberty - Updated Edition

Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781400851430
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Political Philosophy

These celebrated lectures constitute one of Isaiah Berlin's most concise, accessible, and convincing presentations of his views on human freedom—views that later found expression in such famous works as "Two Concepts of Liberty" and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. When they were broadcast on BBC radio in 1952, the lectures created a sensation and confirmed Berlin's reputation as an intellectual who could speak to the public in an appealing and compelling way. A recording of only one of the lectures has survived, but Henry Hardy has recreated them all here from BBC transcripts and Berlin's annotated drafts. Hardy has also added, as an appendix to this new edition, a revealing text of "Two Concepts" based on Berlin's earliest surviving drafts, which throws light on some of the issues raised by the essay. And, in a new foreword, historian Enrique Krauze traces the origin of Berlin's idea of negative freedom to his rejection of the notion that the creation of the State of Israel left Jews with only two choices: to emigrate to Israel or to renounce Jewish identity.

INDEX

Douglas Matthews

absolutism: Rousseau on, 37–8; Saint-Simon’s rejection of, 126, 128, 140

Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron, 28

à Kempis, Thomas, 148

Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, xiii

Alembert, Jean le Rond d’: cocompiles Encyclopédie, 21; and nature, 26; Rousseau’s hostility to, 43; Saint-Simon studies with, 118–19

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 144, 156, 160

Alexander the Great, 92, 98, 104

Ambrose, St, 200 n

anarchists, 238

‘Ancients’ and ‘Moderns’, 231, 233 n

Andersen, Hans Christian, 102

Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 43, 167

Aquinas, St Thomas, 148, 166

Arblaster, Anthony Edmund, 173 n3

Aristotle, 2

arithmetic: rules of, 93–4, 97

art: and creativity, 64–5; and Hegel’s method, 109

artists: and idealism, 70

Assassins, 18

asterisks, 275

Aufgegebene, das, 67

Augustine (of Hippo), St, 2, 148

authority: and liberty, 30–3, 38–9, 46, 218, 250; and Christianity, 127; and autonomy, 215; choice of, 227; see also power; sovereignty

autonomy, 65–6, 200–2, 215

Babeuf, François Noel (‘Gracchus’), 120

banks and bankers: Saint-Simon on, 130–1, 134

Barrès, Maurice, 240 n2

Bazard, (Saint-)Amand, 114

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), xix, xxii, xxiii–xxvi, xxviii, 170 n (on 171)

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 69

Belinsky, Vissarion Grigor´evich, 186

belonging, 84

Bentham, Jeremy, 21, 26, 181, 182 n1, 183, 188, 201, 213 n2, 238 n, 247

Bergson, Henri, 164

Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne, 4, 26

Berlin, Isaiah: lecturing style, xi–xii, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, xxxix; career, xiii, xxiv–xxv; Jewish identity, xiv–xix; opaque meanings interpreted, 264–7

Bodin, Jean, 30

Bonheur, Raymond, 139

Borodino, battle of (1812), 152

Bosanquet, Bernard, 249

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Bishop of Condom, then of Meaux, 7, 148

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• Helvétius
• Rousseau
• Fichte
• Hegel
• Saint-Simon
• Maistre
• Appendix to the Second Edition
• References
• Index