A collection of essays published as a tribute to Sir Isaiah Berlin on his 82nd birthday. The essays concentrate on themes close to Berlin's heart: the history of ideas, Russian thought and literature, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, liberalism and the resurgence of nationalism, the Jewish heritage, music, opera and art. The authors include Michael Ignatieff, Ronald Dworkin, Alfred Brendel, Joseph Brodsky, Jerry Cohen, Stuart Hampshire, Francis Hasbell, David Pears, Charles Taylor, Bernard Williams and Richard Wollheim.