The Hedgehog and the Fox
by Isaiah Berlin | 
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
Sceptical Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
The Power Of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
by Isaiah Berlin | 
Russian Thinkers
by Isaiah Berlin | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
A Little History of Philosophy
by Nigel Warburton | 
Self-Reliance
by Ralph Waldo Emerson | 
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton | 
The Temptation to Exist
by E. M. Cioran | 
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
by Martin Gardner | 
On Suicide
by David Hume | 
The Heart of Things
by A. C. Grayling | 
Between Past and Future
by Hannah Arendt | 
Essays
by Michel de Montaigne | 
Concepts and Categories
by Isaiah Berlin | 
Travels in Hyperreality
by Umberto Eco |
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
by Albert Camus |
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.