Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in Harper's, Irving Howe described it as"an exhilarating performance--this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be." Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has revised the text, incorporating a fifth essay that Berlin himself had wanted to include. He has also added further pieces that bear on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, in anextended preface and in appendices drawn from Berlin's unpublished writings, he exhibits some of the biographical sources of Berlin's lifelong preoccupation with liberalism. These additions help us to grasp the nature of Berlin's "inner citadel," as he called it--the core of personal conviction fromwhich some of his most influential writing sprung. Liberty is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has incorporated a fifth essay, as Berlin wished, and added further pieces on the same topic, so that Berlin's principal statements on liberty are available together for the first time. He also describes the gestation of the book and throws further biographical light on Berlin's preoccupation with liberty in appendices drawnfrom his unpublished writings. Illustrations viii The Editor's Tale ix Five Essays on Liberty Introduction 3(52) Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century 55(39) Historical Inevitability 94(72) Two Concepts of Liberty 166(52) John Stuart Mill and the Ends of Life 218(34) From Hope and Fear Set Free 252(31) Other Writings on Liberty Liberty 283(4) The Birth of Greek Individualism 287(35) Final Retrospect 322(9) Autobiographical Appendices The Purpose Justifies the Ways 331(5) A Letter to George Kennan 336(9) Notes on Prejudice 345(4) Berlin and his Critics 349(18) Ian Harris Concordance to Four Essays on Liberty 367(4) Index 371