When Anna met Isaiah
A new opera dramatizes the storied all-night meeting in 1945 between Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and british philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Was the encounter a key moment in cold war history, as she believed? (And can philosophy REALLY be sung?)
THE WORLD, A WIT once said, is made up of two kinds of people: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. A little over 50 years ago, the eminent British philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin pitched his tent firmly in the first camp with his 1953 essay "The Hedgehog and the ... (Full Article: 1769 Words)
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