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...They were aspiring to lay out the Sharon of the Bible, the valley that the prophet Isaiah holds up as a future “pasture for flocks”, while the author of that anonymous love-song, now known as the Song of...
...Robin Lane Fox will speak at the FT Weekend Festival, September 7 at Kenwood House, London....
...One of them was the young Isaiah Berlin, the future philosopher, who describes their afternoon together admiringly in one of his first ever published works....
...Dismayingly, this culture had its own immigrant disciples — chief among them being Isaiah Berlin, who makes a brief but characteristic cameo in Hall’s book....
...The first is Isaiah Berlin, whose emphasis on the supreme importance of “negative liberty” — protection against interference by other people and the state — still holds a place in Gray’s base position....
...“The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead.” But trends can be counted on to reverse themselves. I take much comfort from this fact....
...John Gray made us read Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin and it scared the bejesus out of me because I realised that cleverer people than I’ll ever be had thought the same and it had always and everywhere led...
...The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, by John Gray, Allen Lane, RRP£18.99, 240 pages A little over a decade ago, John Gray secured his status as one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals...
...Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings By John Gray Allen Lane £20, 481 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century By AC Grayling Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20, 436 pages...
...Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution – and How We Can Renew Our Global Future By Thomas Friedman Allen Lane £20, 448 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Tom Friedman has done it again...
...In 1932, the great philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote from a small island off Ireland that its life, its fishing and birds made him think so powerfully of the minor Russian gentry in the 1860s, the world he...
...Robin Lane Fox is Reader in Ancient History at Oxford University....
...Since then, a few more business personalities have crept into the list, including Anita Roddick, Martha Lane Fox and Richard Branson....
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