Publisher's Synopsis
Isaiah Berlin's 'The Sense of Reality' contains an important body of previously unknown work by one of the 20th century's leading historians of ideas. Eight of the nine pieces included here are published for the first time, and their range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgment in politics; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by the Romantics; Russian notions of artistic commitment; and the origins and practice of nationalism.
