Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasBerlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. |
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... German Anti-Rationalism Herzen and his Memoirs The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity The 'Naïveté' of Verdi Georges Sorel Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power Author's Note A ...
... German Anti-Rationalism Herzen and his Memoirs The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity The 'Naïveté' of Verdi Georges Sorel Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power Author's Note A ...
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... an edition of his letters. Roger Hausheer, who is writing an intellectual life of Isaiah Berlin, is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Bradford. Also by Isaiah Berlin * KARL MARX THE AGE OF Cover About the Author.
... an edition of his letters. Roger Hausheer, who is writing an intellectual life of Isaiah Berlin, is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Bradford. Also by Isaiah Berlin * KARL MARX THE AGE OF Cover About the Author.
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... German Anti-Rationalism' was a contribution to G. P. Morice (ed.), David Hume: Bicentennial Papers (Edinburgh, 1977: Edinburgh University Press);7 'Herzen and his Memoirs' is the introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts ...
... German Anti-Rationalism' was a contribution to G. P. Morice (ed.), David Hume: Bicentennial Papers (Edinburgh, 1977: Edinburgh University Press);7 'Herzen and his Memoirs' is the introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts ...
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... German sources, especially Hamann and Hess. David Robey helped with Machiavelli, Edward Larrissy with Blake, the late Robert Shackleton with Montesquieu, Robert Wokler with Rousseau, Barry Stroud with Hume, Aileen Kelly with Herzen ...
... German sources, especially Hamann and Hess. David Robey helped with Machiavelli, Edward Larrissy with Blake, the late Robert Shackleton with Montesquieu, Robert Wokler with Rousseau, Barry Stroud with Hume, Aileen Kelly with Herzen ...
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... German historicists, Troeltsch, Dilthey, Meinecke and Max Weber, and it had implications for epistemology and the philosophy of mind which were major preoccupations of a great deal of nineteenthcentury thought. It is to a discussion of ...
... German historicists, Troeltsch, Dilthey, Meinecke and Max Weber, and it had implications for epistemology and the philosophy of mind which were major preoccupations of a great deal of nineteenthcentury thought. It is to a discussion of ...
Contents
The Originality of Machiavelli | |
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities | |
Vicos Concept of Knowledge | |
Montesquieu | |
Hume and the Sources of German AntiRationalism | |
Herzen and his Memoirs | |
The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess | |
Benjamin Disraeli Karl Marx and the Search for Identity | |
The Naïveté of Verdi | |
Past Neglect and Present Power | |
Authors Note | |
Index | |
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