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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... 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 Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin Index Copyright About the Author Isaiah Berlin ...
... 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 Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin Index Copyright About the Author Isaiah Berlin ...
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... Hess' was the Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer, for the Jewish Historical Society of England); 'Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity' appeared in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of ...
... Hess' was the Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture (Cambridge, 1959: Heffer, for the Jewish Historical Society of England); 'Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity' appeared in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of ...
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... Hess and Sorel, to take but three examples, would be memorable for this alone. But what makes these essays so strikingly original and exciting is the sense we are given of the gradual birth of seminal new ideas, of the emergence since ...
... Hess and Sorel, to take but three examples, would be memorable for this alone. But what makes these essays so strikingly original and exciting is the sense we are given of the gradual birth of seminal new ideas, of the emergence since ...
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... Hess and on Marx and Disraeli, and it illuminates the critical pages he has written on nationalism: the idea that one of the fundamental needs of men, as basic as those for food, shelter, procreation, security and communication, is to ...
... Hess and on Marx and Disraeli, and it illuminates the critical pages he has written on nationalism: the idea that one of the fundamental needs of men, as basic as those for food, shelter, procreation, security and communication, is to ...
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... Hess, less capable of either self-deception or imaginative construction, but with his gift of simple direct perception, took the former course. Disraeli, an outsider in British society, sought above all else power and recognition: in ...
... Hess, less capable of either self-deception or imaginative construction, but with his gift of simple direct perception, took the former course. Disraeli, an outsider in British society, sought above all else power and recognition: in ...
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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