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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... Hume and the Sources of 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 ...
... Hume and the Sources of 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 ...
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... Hume and the Sources of 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 ...
... Hume and the Sources of 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 ...
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... Hume, Aileen Kelly with Herzen, Lord Blake and Vernon Bogdanor with Disraeli, Terrell Carver with Marx and Jeremy Jennings with Sorel. I could not have managed without the assistance of these scholars, and I record my gratitude to them ...
... Hume, Aileen Kelly with Herzen, Lord Blake and Vernon Bogdanor with Disraeli, Terrell Carver with Marx and Jeremy Jennings with Sorel. I could not have managed without the assistance of these scholars, and I record my gratitude to them ...
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... Hume, Russell, Ayer, the early Wittgenstein, Carnap, the Vienna Circle and the main strains of neo-positivism, with their reductionist methods of ironing and flattening out, and the rejection by philosophers like Vico of Descartes and ...
... Hume, Russell, Ayer, the early Wittgenstein, Carnap, the Vienna Circle and the main strains of neo-positivism, with their reductionist methods of ironing and flattening out, and the rejection by philosophers like Vico of Descartes and ...
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... Hume, and Sorel, and the essay on nationalism, may be seen to connect in this regard with some of the major concerns of 'Historical Inevitability'.2 For again and again Berlin warns against two fatal dangers: that of subscribing to all ...
... Hume, and Sorel, and the essay on nationalism, may be seen to connect in this regard with some of the major concerns of 'Historical Inevitability'.2 For again and again Berlin warns against two fatal dangers: that of subscribing to all ...
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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