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A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

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The Romantic Impulse Isn't Enough

Francis garnett translated my past and thoughts in the 19 twenties and in the 19 thirties. The anarchist, of course, had always taken seriously beculian's complaint that marx's utopia would not see the withering away of the state but would be a bureaucratic nightmare run by professors of economics. We need schiller's letters on the aesthetic education of mankind. We need von humboldt on the limits of the statead. And into the gap stream the romantics. I thought your lecture was a wonderfully, er eloquent demonstration of that kind of understanding.

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