Freedom and Its Betrayal
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Freedom and Its Betrayal is a posthumously published collection of Isaiah Berlin’s lectures examining the history and distortion of liberal ideas, edited and prepared for publication by Henry Hardy.
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| Freedom and Its Betrayal canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Freedom and Its Betrayal Context triple: [Henry Hardy, hasEdited, Freedom and Its Betrayal]
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A.
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom is a seminal 1941 social-psychological work by Erich Fromm that explores how modern individuals respond to newfound freedom with both a desire for autonomy and a tendency toward authoritarianism and conformity.
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B.
The Price of Freedom
The Price of Freedom is a war film depicting the World War II assassination of high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters.
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C.
The Discovery of Freedom
The Discovery of Freedom is a 1943 libertarian classic by Rose Wilder Lane that argues passionately for individual liberty and critiques collectivist ideologies.
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D.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
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E.
The Crucifixion of Liberty
The Crucifixion of Liberty is a political work by Russian revolutionary leader Alexander Kerensky in which he reflects on the Russian Revolution and the subsequent rise of Bolshevik authoritarianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: Freedom and Its Betrayal Target entity description: Freedom and Its Betrayal is a posthumously published collection of Isaiah Berlin’s lectures examining the history and distortion of liberal ideas, edited and prepared for publication by Henry Hardy.
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A.
Escape from Freedom
Escape from Freedom is a seminal 1941 social-psychological work by Erich Fromm that explores how modern individuals respond to newfound freedom with both a desire for autonomy and a tendency toward authoritarianism and conformity.
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B.
The Price of Freedom
The Price of Freedom is a war film depicting the World War II assassination of high-ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak resistance fighters.
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C.
The Discovery of Freedom
The Discovery of Freedom is a 1943 libertarian classic by Rose Wilder Lane that argues passionately for individual liberty and critiques collectivist ideologies.
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D.
The Path to Freedom
"The Path to Freedom" is a chapter in Carl Sagan’s science book *The Demon-Haunted World* that explores how scientific thinking and skepticism can liberate people from superstition and irrational beliefs.
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E.
The Crucifixion of Liberty
The Crucifixion of Liberty is a political work by Russian revolutionary leader Alexander Kerensky in which he reflects on the Russian Revolution and the subsequent rise of Bolshevik authoritarianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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collection of lectures ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Isaiah Berlin ⓘ |
| basedOn | lectures by Isaiah Berlin ⓘ |
| contributor |
Henry Hardy
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Isaiah Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| editor | Henry Hardy ⓘ |
| editorialContributionBy | Henry Hardy ⓘ |
| genre |
intellectual history
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political philosophy ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780691090262 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
lecture on Claude Henri de Saint-Simon
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lecture on G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ lecture on Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ lecture on Johann Gottlieb Fichte ⓘ lecture on Joseph de Maistre ⓘ lecture on Karl Marx ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
general readers interested in political philosophy
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students of political theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
freedom
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history of ideas ⓘ liberalism ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | analysis of enemies of liberty within Western thought ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
liberalism
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pluralism ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | posthumous ⓘ |
| publisher |
Chatto & Windus
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Princeton University Press ⓘ |
| series |
Isaiah Berlin’s collected works
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linked to:
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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| settingOfCreation | lectures delivered in the 1950s ⓘ |
| topic |
critique of totalitarianism
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distortion of liberal ideas ⓘ history of liberal thought ⓘ negative liberty ⓘ positive liberty ⓘ |
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