Freedom and Its Betrayal

以赛亚·伯林(1909-1997)，英国哲学家和政治思想史家，20世纪最著名的自由主义知识分子之一。主要著作有《卡尔·马克思》(1939)、《自由四论》(1969，后扩充为《自由论》)、《维柯与赫尔德》(1976)、《俄国思想家》(1978)、《概念与范畴》(1978)、《反潮流》(1979)、《个人印象》(1980)、《扭曲的人性之材》(1990)、《现实感》(1997)等。

出版者:Pimlico

作者:Isaiah Berlin

页数:256

出版时间:2003-2-6

价格:GBP 14.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780712668422

图书标签:PoliticsPhilosophy

Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest and most convincing expositions of his views on human freedom and the history of ideas, views which later found expression in such famous works as 'Two Concepts of Liberty', and were at the heart of his lifelong work on the Enlightenment and its critics. In his lucid examinations of sometimes difficult ideas Berlin demonstrates that a balanced understanding and a resilient defence of human liberty depend on learning both from the errors of freedom's alleged defenders and from the dark insights of its avowed antagonists. This book throws light on the early development of Berlin's ideas, and supplements his already published writings with fuller treatments of Helvetius, Rousseau, Fichte, Hegel and Saint-Simon, with the ultra-conservative traditionalist Maistre bringing up the rear. Freedom and its Betrayal shows Berlin at his liveliest and most torrentially spontaneous, testifying to his talents as a teacher of rare brilliance and impact. Listeners tuned in expectantly each week to the broadcasts and found themselves mesmerised by Berlin's astonishingly fluent extempore style. A leading historian of ideas, who was then a schoolboy, records that the lectures 'excited me so much that I sat, for every talk, on the floor beside the wireless, taking notes'. This excitement is at last recreated here for all to share.

读后感

以赛亚﹒伯林的《自由及其背叛》终于算是看完了，有些唏嘘，几百年来，令这些伟大的、聪明睿智的男人们念念不忘、纠结不已的“自由”，竟然是这样的复杂难奈、自相矛盾，或者说：剪不断、理还乱…… 男人们在自己的世界里寻找着自由，在与他人的关系中捍卫着自己感觉或者心目...  

看见这本书让我想一年前的某一段生活，那时候坐在路边的竹椅上，明亮的路灯在头顶，看这本书等着一个女孩回家，而这种等待有时候会到凌晨三点钟。 这本书很薄，所以便于携带；因为是演讲稿，所以遣词造句都很容易懂。我是如此喜欢这本书以至于想要向每一个我认识的人介绍...  

在读完柏林的《自由及其背叛》这本演讲集之前，我是不清楚自己的道德观念到底属于哪个类型的。我明白我问出几乎所有问题以前可能都有人已经问过，甚至有人给出足以令人信服的答案了。柏林的这本演讲集，很大程度上回答了我很多的问题。虽然他是用一种证伪的方式来解答什么是真...  

时隔两年重读，难免与过往自我对照。读柏林视角的观念史觉得享受，并不在于绝对认同他的批判逻辑，而在于他的头脑聪慧又清晰，不被社会情绪所束，他视角下的观念图景也就跟着迷人。如入幽暗的山林，跟着柏林的探照灯会看到极美的风景。 看到“被激情奴役”（即个体摆脱非理性）...  

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this is a central doctrine in Maistre: that rationalist notions do not work, if you really want to know why people behave as they do, you must seek the answer in the realm of the irrational, Berlin was interested in how the ideal of liberty so quickly turned into its opposite and how the greatest tyrant often started out as the greatest liberator。。

this is a central doctrine in Maistre: that rationalist notions do not work, if you really want to know why people behave as they do, you must seek the answer in the realm of the irrational, Berlin was interested in how the ideal of liberty so quickly turned into its opposite and how the greatest tyrant often started out as the greatest liberator。。

this is a central doctrine in Maistre: that rationalist notions do not work, if you really want to know why people behave as they do, you must seek the answer in the realm of the irrational, Berlin was interested in how the ideal of liberty so quickly turned into its opposite and how the greatest tyrant often started out as the greatest liberator。。

this is a central doctrine in Maistre: that rationalist notions do not work, if you really want to know why people behave as they do, you must seek the answer in the realm of the irrational, Berlin was interested in how the ideal of liberty so quickly turned into its opposite and how the greatest tyrant often started out as the greatest liberator。。

this is a central doctrine in Maistre: that rationalist notions do not work, if you really want to know why people behave as they do, you must seek the answer in the realm of the irrational, Berlin was interested in how the ideal of liberty so quickly turned into its opposite and how the greatest tyrant often started out as the greatest liberator。。