Conversations with Isaiah Berlin Ramin Jahanbegloo

An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century.

Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas.

They include discussions on pluralism and liberty as well as the thinkers and writers who influenced Berlin. This revised edition provided an excellent introduction to Berlin's thought.

'Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times'.

Maurice Bowra

'Berlin never talks down to the interviewer. Conversations here means the minds of the interviewed and interviewer meet on equal terms in language that is transparently clear, informed, witty and entertaining'.

Stephen Spender

'He is wise without seeming pompous, witty without seeming trivial, affectionate without seeming sentimental'.

Michael Ignatieff

'Isaiah Berlin... has for fifty years in this talkative and quarrelsome city (Oxford) been something special, admired by all and disliked by no-one... a benevolent super-don'.

John Bayley