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Review: Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasUser Review - Sh - GoodreadsOutstanding representative of Berlin's ideas and thoughts. Collection of the essays touch, albeit on somewhat lighter level, nearly all major intellectual contributions of Isaiah Berlin as a historian ... Read full review Review: Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasUser Review - Lauren Albert - GoodreadsMostly excellent though there is some repetitiveness in the first half (even some self-plagiarism). Of note, I thought, was his essay on the ironic (to us) way Hume was used by German anti ... Read full review Related books
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