The Crooked Timber of Humanity
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Proper Study of Mankind
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Purpose of the Past
by Gordon S. Wood | 
The Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas | 
A Little History of Philosophy
by Nigel Warburton | 
Sceptical Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
The Power Of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
The Great Chain of Being
by Arthur O. Lovejoy | 
The Hedgehog and the Fox
by Isaiah Berlin | 
On Suicide
by David Hume | 
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell |
Red Fortress
by Catherine Merridale |
Russia
by Martin Sixsmith | 
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton | 
Travels in Hyperreality
by Umberto Eco | 
The Argumentative Indian
by Amartya Sen | 
On Tyranny
by Timothy Snyder | 
Reappraisals
by Tony Judt |
The theme that links the essays in this book, written over 30 years, is the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia, which Isaiah Berlin describes as the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.