The Power Of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Great Chain of Being
by Arthur O. Lovejoy | 
The Proper Study of Mankind
by Isaiah Berlin | 
On Seeing and Noticing
by Alain de Botton | 
A Little History of Philosophy
by Nigel Warburton | 
The Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas | 
Sceptical Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
Why I Am So Wise
by Friedrich Nietzsche | 
Russian Thinkers
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton | 
Unpopular Essays
by Bertrand Russell | 
On Suicide
by David Hume | 
The Story of Philosophy
by Will Durant | 
The Temptation to Exist
by E. M. Cioran | 
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
by Martin Gardner | 
The Hedgehog and the Fox
by Isaiah Berlin | 
The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky | 
Gray's Anatomy
by John Gray | 
The Ordeal of Change
by Eric Hoffer |
Men in Dark Times
by Hannah Arendt |
Isaiah Berlin is regarded by many as one of the greatest historians of ideas of his time. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity, he argues passionately, eloquently, and subtly, that what he calls 'the Great Goods' of human aspiration - liberty, justice, equality - do not cohere and never can. Pluralism and variety of thought are not avoidable compromises, but the glory of civilisation. In an age of increasing ideological fundamentalism and intolerance we need to listen to Isaiah Berlin more carefully than ever before.