biography
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| lived:
| (1909–97)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and historian of ideas, born in Riga, Latvia. Most of his academic career was at Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls (1932), professor of social and political theory (1957), and Master of Wolfson College (1966). His philosophical works included Karl Marx (1939), Historical Inevitability (1954), Two Concepts of Liberty (1959), and Vico and Herder (1976). Later works included The Crooked Timber of Humanity (1990) and The Magus of the North (1993). He was widely recognized as one of the leading intellectual voices of his generation. |
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