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Article: ISAIAH BERLIN, POLITICAL THEORIST.(NEWS)(Obituary)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 7, 1997
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Byline: Associated Press
Sir Isaiah Berlin, a giant in 20th-century thought who specialized in the history of political ideas and the concepts of liberty, has died at the age of 88.
Berlin was remembered fondly Thursday as a raconteur who talked impossibly fast in a half-dozen languages, a lecturer who absorbed audiences across the world and a man who ``reshaped political philosophy.''
He died Wednesday night at Oxford's Acland Hospital, according to Oxford University, where he had served for more than 60 years as a lecturer, professor and college president. No other details were released.
A Latvian-born liberal and a committed ...