内容説明
This remarkable collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciations of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world, sometimes both. The names of many of them are familiar: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, and others. With the exception of Roosevelt, he met them all and knew many of them well. For this expanded edition, four new portraits have been added, including those of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. This volume also contains a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. Perhaps the most fascinating of these 'personal impressions' is found in the epilogue, where Berlin describes the three strands in his own personality: Russian, English, and Jewish.
目次
List of illustrations viii Author's preface to the first edition ix Editor's preface xi Introduction by Noel Annan xv Winston Churchill in 1940 1 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 24 Chaim Weizmann 34 Einstein and Israel 66 Yitzhak Sadeh 78 L. B. Namier 91 Felix Frankfurter at Oxford 112 Richard Pares 120 Hubert Henderson at All Souls 125 J. L. Austin and the Early Beginnings of Oxford Philosophy 130 John Petrov Plamenatz 146 Maurice Bowra 154 David Cecil 160 Memories of Virginia Woolf 168 Edmund Wilson at Oxford 172 Auberon Herbert 183 Aldous Huxley I89 Meetings with Russian Writers in 1945 and 1956 198 Epilogue: The Three Strands in My Life 255 Index 261
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