Archiwum
Filozofii Prawa
i Filozofii Społecznej

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A Story of a Foreword. Remarks on the Chinese Translation of „Unfinished Dialogue”

Prof. dr hab. Beata Polanowska-Sygulska

Jagiellonian University in Kraków


Abstract: In 2014 Yilin Press published a Chinese translation of a book “Unfinished Dialogue” by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska. The text presents the letters exchanged between Beata Polanowska-Sygulska and Yang Deyou, the translator of the book and an expert in Polish and English studies, and which led to the creation of the foreword to the Chinese edition of the book.

Keywords: Isaiah Berlin, Unfinished Dialogue, Yang Deyou
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Language: Polish

Published: Numer 2(11)/2015, p. 20-26.

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Essentialism and Human Nature. Excerpts from “Unfinished Dialogue”

Prof. Isaiah Berlin, Prof. dr hab. Beata Polanowska-Sygulska

Oxford University / Jagiellonian University in Kraków

Abstract: The text consists of the excerpts from a book “Unfinished Dialogue” by Isaiah Berlin and Beata Polanowska-Sygulska published in New York in 2006. The passages include one of the letters that the British philosopher wrote to Beata Polanowska-Sygulska in 1986, printed earlier in „The New York Review of Books”, and a transcript from a discussion between Isaiah Berlin, Beata Polanowska-Sygulska and John Gray that took place in 1988.

Keywords: Isaiah Berlin, Unfinished Dialogue, essentialism, human nature
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Language: Polish

Published: Numer 2(11)/2015, p. 5-19.

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