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The essays collected here reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. While nowhere was his writing burdened by the opacity of the specialist, these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this new volume. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role of ideas, and of their progenitors. The book exhibits the full range of Berlin's enormously wide expertise and demonstrates the striking and engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas.