Introduction

Isiah berlin was a deeply influential philosopher and historian of ideas. He wrote an enormous amount of deeply penetrating and inciteful works, but simply never bothered to present them in any coherent form. henry hardy has spent the better part of his life in bringing the lion's share of berlin's voluminous writings to light. The story he captivatingly details in his book, in search of isiah berlin, a literary adventure. Howard burton: Are editors born, or are they made? i don't want to get too far into that.