Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 83
... Descartes and Bacon , who carried opposition to the authority of tradition , faith , dog- ma or prescription into every realm of knowledge and opinion , armed with weapons used during the Renaissance and , indeed , earlier . Although ...
... Descartes and Bacon , who carried opposition to the authority of tradition , faith , dog- ma or prescription into every realm of knowledge and opinion , armed with weapons used during the Renaissance and , indeed , earlier . Although ...
Page 113
... Descartes ' Discours de la méthode , with its fanatical monism and especi- ally its contempt for scholarship and humane studies . But at this stage mathematics is still described by Vico as being ' like a divine science , since in it ...
... Descartes ' Discours de la méthode , with its fanatical monism and especi- ally its contempt for scholarship and humane studies . But at this stage mathematics is still described by Vico as being ' like a divine science , since in it ...
Page 133
... Descartes and Vico , Hume , Gibbon and Rousseau have spoken in similar terms of the crises which had changed their vision of life . What was it that moved this very sober and sceptical man so deeply ? He lived at a time when the world ...
... Descartes and Vico , Hume , Gibbon and Rousseau have spoken in similar terms of the crises which had changed their vision of life . What was it that moved this very sober and sceptical man so deeply ? He lived at a time when the world ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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