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1/7 Isaiah Berlin - Final Lecture on the Roots of Romanticism

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In these lectures, originally delivered at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art in 1965, acclaimed historian of philosophy Isaiah Berlin addresses the origins of what he deems "the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred." His focus, apart from some digressions into Montesquieu, Hume, and Rousseau, is on the German philosophers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and he runs through the contributions of Herder, Kant, Schiller, Fichte, Schlegel, and others in turn. He also shows how romanticism would later influence both the existentialists and the fascists, but paradoxically have its greatest influence upon the emergence of a liberalism that seems at complete odds with the romantic sensibility.

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  • @Framblott right. I think the interview he did w/ Ignatieff brings the background up. He was aware of it too but I'm not too bothered by it. He's too damn interesting a fellow.

  • @MisterFutility & S2Cents: "he talks too fast". It's not really your or our fault if Mr Berlin sounds rushed--he's speaking a, to him, foreign language. I immediately heard an accent when he started. Turns out he was born to Jewish parents in Riga, Latvia. Moved to Pskov, Russia. Emigrated to London with no English just before 12th birthday. Then went to St Paul's School, Oxford, etc. His habit: dropping syllables inside words or when joining them. His Hebrew accent sounds Arabic at first.

  • I recommend you reading The Roots of Romanticism. Very nice reading... really better than listening ;)

  • @MisterFutility drink a tall coffee and focus ;-)

  • Super interesting but god-damn he talks too fast.

  • what a dude!

  • better than natural selection..huh...natrual order...and freud suppresion is what man does to himself suppresion comeith not from outside.

  • knowleadge is virture and virtue is knowleadge but what is knowleadge of virture? sin!

  • Actually, I was able to find it in mp3 format after a bit of searching, so no need any more.

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