Isaiah Berlin sycophancy

Expressions of personal affection for Berlin are not hard to find. A rather embarrassing example of Berlin sycophancy comes from Maurice Bowra, who wrote: “Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times”.

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Rowse criticises the lack of substance in Berlin’s academic-intellectual approach.

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In letters to Felix Frankfurter he was very candid about the ‘Israeli’ mentality: “the trouble about the Israelis is not only their partly unconscious conviction born of experience that virtue always loses and only toughness pays, but a great provincialism and blindness to outside opinion”

-- The Ambiguity of Intellectual Engagement: Towards a Reassessment of Isaiah Berlin’s Legacy by Jonathan Hogg

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