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The Sense of Reality. Studies in Ideas and Their History Paperback - 1998
by Berlin, Isaiah; edited by Henry Hardy; Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
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Berlin's "The Sense of Reality" made available, in the months before the author's death, an important body of previously unknown work by one of the century's leading historians of ideas, and one of the finest essayists writing in English.
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- Title The Sense of Reality. Studies in Ideas and Their History
- Author Berlin, Isaiah; edited by Henry Hardy; Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
- Date 1998
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 53570
- ISBN 9780374525699 / 0374525692
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.64 x 5.5 x 0.73 in (21.95 x 13.97 x 1.85 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects History, Modern, History - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96039829
- Dewey Decimal Code 192
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WHEN MEN, as occasionally happens, develop a distaste for the age in which they live, and love and admire some past period with such uncritical devotion that it is clear that, if they had their choice, they would wish to be alive then and not now - and when, as the next step, they seek to introduce into their lives certain of the habits and practices of the idealised past, and criticise the present for falling short of, or for degeneration from, this past - we tend to accuse them of nostalgic 'escapism', romantic antiquarianism, lack of realism; we dismiss their efforts as attempts to 'turn the clock back', to 'ignore the forces of history', or 'fly in the face of the facts', at best touching and childish and pathetic, at worst 'retrograde', or 'obstructive', or insanely 'fanatical', and, although doomed to failure in the end, capable of creating gratuitous obstacles to progress in the immediate present and future.
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- New York Times, 02/07/1999, Page 24