In this, the seventh episode of our series on Isaiah Berlin and romanticism, I take a break from the discussion of German philosophers Hamann and Herder to discuss the historical and political context of Berlin's original scholarship - the mid 20th century - and reflect on current receptions of that consequential and possibly misunderstood period.

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