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Title: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin by Mark Lilla, Ronald Dworkin, Robert B. Silvers ISBN: 1-59017-009-1 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Tribute to a Great Thinker and Pluralist!
Comment: This book, which was published from a conference dedicated to discussing aspects of Berlin's emphasis on value pluralism, is divided into three sections. The first focuses on his pluralism as he saw it within history. The second takes his pluralism and speaks of it in relation to moral theory. The third discusses that pluralism as relating to the question of Israel and nationalism. Obligatory disclosure: I skipped section three as Israel is not a question that interests me, so my review is on the first two sections.
Now, anyone who's read Berlin knows that he is notoriously hard to pin down. He is to historical to be a philosopher yet to philosophical to be a historian. As one who wrote more historical studies than philosophical essays (in the proper sense) Berlin's thought is hard to synthesize. This book, though, does a good service by focusing on Berlin's central theme: the plurality of values and their connection to history and philosophy. See, for Berlin, no one system could account for our moral lives. Values, ends, means, these all conflict inter- and intra-personally. No system, said he, will resolve these so that they all line up and 'hang together'. Abstractions, too, like Liberty, are meaningless without a concrete context; liberty of what according to who's view? That pluralism is what this book discusses: the first part on its affect on Berlin's historical study, the second on his philosophy.
There is a great group of thinkers here: Mark Lilla, Michael Walzer, Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Charles Taylor - on and on. The essays, more-or-less, form a consensus and largely find Berlin's pluralism unproblematic as far as its truth goes (the only article that takes issue is Dworkin's). Each thinker, though, has a different take on what accepting pluralism means and whether, if conflicting values is 'inevitable', how far we should go to TRY and reconcile them. That's where the fun is; in these small differences. I should mention to that each section ends with a 20-or-so page 'discussion' section that must have been transcribed during the seminar. We see a lot of good interchange here between the panelists.
All in all, this is a book that should not be missed by those that find value (or question) in Berlinian pluralism.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mark Lilla and Ronald Dworkin together???
Comment: Can't wait to see this one. Lilla and Dworkin is like a collaboration between Ken Vandermark and Wynton Marsalis.
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Title: The Reckless Mind : Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lilla ISBN: 1590170717 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Three Critics of the Enlightenment by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691057273 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691058385 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 02 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Proper Study of Mankind : An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer ISBN: 0374527172 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 02 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Hegel and Modern Society by Charles Taylor ISBN: 0521293510 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 05 April, 1979 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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