Liberty

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Liberty is a seminal collection of political essays by Isaiah Berlin that explores the concepts of negative and positive freedom and their implications for liberal thought.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
collection of essays
academicField intellectual history
philosophy
political theory
author Isaiah Berlin NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Isaiah Berlin NERFINISHED
contributor Henry Hardy NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
editor Henry Hardy NERFINISHED
explores distinction between negative and positive freedom
focusesOn concept of freedom in political theory
relationship between individual and state
genre non-fiction
political essay
hasInterpretation defense of negative liberty as central to liberalism
warning against authoritarian implications of positive liberty
hasPart Historical Inevitability
Other political essays by Isaiah Berlin
Two Concepts of Liberty NERFINISHED
hasTheme critique of determinism in history
individual autonomy
limits of state authority
value pluralism and conflict of values
influenced contemporary discussions of freedom
debates on value pluralism
late 20th-century liberal theory
influencedBy British liberal tradition
Enlightenment political thought
language English
mainSubject freedom
liberalism
negative liberty
political philosophy
positive liberty
notableFor impact on modern liberal thought
systematic exposition of negative and positive liberty
philosophicalDiscipline moral philosophy
political philosophy
philosophicalTradition liberalism
pluralism
publisher Oxford University Press
timePeriodDiscussed 19th century political thought
20th century political thought
modern era

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Henry Hardy hasEdited Liberty