Education
Beiser received his first bachelor's degree from Shimer College, a Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, in 1971. His second bachelor's was from Oriel College of Oxford University, which he received in 1974. He subsequently studied at the London School of Economics from 1974 to 1975.
Beiser earned his DPhil. degree from Wolfson College of Oxford University in 1980, under the direction of Charles Taylor and Isaiah Berlin.
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