Individualidad romántica y pluralismo

Abstract

In the work of Sir Isaiah Berlín there is a significant thematic nucleus: the study of the origins of the Russian Intelligentsia. Within this framework are forged sorne of the central ideas of Professor Berlin's particular form of Iiberalism. Above ali, the connexion between a proposal for a unity of theory and practice and a pluralist vision. This distinguishes Berlin's thought from the doctrinaire liberalism of Hayek or the critica! rationalism of Popper, and has its roots in an understanding of romantic individuality and the possibilities of esthetic Ianguage which Berlin appears to take from the life and works of Belinsky, Herzen, Turgenev and, in a diferent way, from Tolstoy.