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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Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. About. the. Author. Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in 1917, in Petrograd, Berlin witnessed both Revolutions ...
Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. About. the. Author. Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in 1917, in Petrograd, Berlin witnessed both Revolutions ...
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Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. Also by Isaiah Berlin * KARL MARX THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT FOUR ESSAYS ON LIBERTY VICO AND HERDER Edited by Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly RUSSIAN THINKERS Edited by Henry Hardy CONCEPTS AND ...
Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. Also by Isaiah Berlin * KARL MARX THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT FOUR ESSAYS ON LIBERTY VICO AND HERDER Edited by Henry Hardy and Aileen Kelly RUSSIAN THINKERS Edited by Henry Hardy CONCEPTS AND ...
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Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. Berlin's essays have called into question, implicitly or explicitly, some of the most ancient and most deeply held assumptions of men, at any rate in the western world. And though the analogy ...
Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. Berlin's essays have called into question, implicitly or explicitly, some of the most ancient and most deeply held assumptions of men, at any rate in the western world. And though the analogy ...
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Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. It is against this background that we must view, on the one hand, Berlin's attitude to one of the most influential philosophical currents of his time, that associated with the neo-positivism ...
Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Berlin. It is against this background that we must view, on the one hand, Berlin's attitude to one of the most influential philosophical currents of his time, that associated with the neo-positivism ...
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... essays offer a sensitive and subtle investigation of the impingement, for example, of our increasingly exact and ... essays on Hamann and Hume, and Sorel, and the essay on nationalism, may be seen to connect in this regard with some of ...
... essays offer a sensitive and subtle investigation of the impingement, for example, of our increasingly exact and ... essays on Hamann and Hume, and Sorel, and the essay on nationalism, may be seen to connect in this regard with some 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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