Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom - ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later

Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom

brings together an integrated collection of essays by noted and emerging political theorists that commemorate in a critical spirit the recent 50^th

anniversary of Isaiah Berlin’s famous lecture and essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty." The contributors use Berlin’s essay as an occasion to rethink the larger politics of freedom from a twenty-first century standpoint, bringing Berlin’s ideas into conversation with current political problems and perspectives rooted in postcolonial theory, feminist theory, democratic theory, and critical social theory.