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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... Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and Its Betrayal, Liberty, The Soviet Mind and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. As an exponent ...
... Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and Its Betrayal, Liberty, The Soviet Mind and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age. As an exponent ...
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... CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY THE MAGUS OF THE NORTH THE SENSE OF REALITY Edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND Against The Current Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Also by Isaiah Berlin.
... CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY THE MAGUS OF THE NORTH THE SENSE OF REALITY Edited by Henry Hardy and Roger Hausheer THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND Against The Current Essays in the History of Ideas Isaiah Also by Isaiah Berlin.
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... Sense of Reality; 'The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West', 'European Unity and its Vicissitudes', 'The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt Against the Myth of an Ideal World' and 'The Bent Twig: A Note on Nationalism', which ...
... Sense of Reality; 'The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West', 'European Unity and its Vicissitudes', 'The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt Against the Myth of an Ideal World' and 'The Bent Twig: A Note on Nationalism', which ...
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... Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History (London, 1996; New York, 1997). 4 They are, respectively, items 37, 74, 79, 98, 38, 159, 73,143, 128, 170, 181, 196 and 200. The bibliography should also be consulted for the many ...
... Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History (London, 1996; New York, 1997). 4 They are, respectively, items 37, 74, 79, 98, 38, 159, 73,143, 128, 170, 181, 196 and 200. The bibliography should also be consulted for the many ...
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... sense we are given of the gradual birth of seminal new ideas, of the emergence since the mid-eighteenth century of some of the great cardinal notions of the modern world. For in examining the ideas of philosophers, thinkers, and men of ...
... sense we are given of the gradual birth of seminal new ideas, of the emergence since the mid-eighteenth century of some of the great cardinal notions of the modern world. For in examining the ideas of philosophers, thinkers, and men 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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