# The Sense Of Reality

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- Authors: [Isaiah Berlin](https://www.bookquiver.com/isaiah-berlin)
- Publisher: Pimlico
- ISBN: 978-07-1267-367-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 1997-09-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Eight of the nine pieces in The Sense of Reality are published here for the first time. The range is characteristically wide: realism in history; judgement in politics; the special right of philosophers to self-expression; the history of socialism; the nature and impact of Marxism; the radical cultural revolution instigated by romanticism; the Russian notion of artistic commitment; the origins and practice of nationalism. The title essay, starting from the impossibility of recreating a bygone epoch, provides a superb centrepiece.