Against the Current: Essays in the History of IdeasIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... Hamann believed that truth is always particular , never general ; genuine know- ledge is direct , gained through ... Hamann's sense ) is a ' basic instinct ' ( Grundtrieb ) without which we could not act at all.1 Words are symbols which ...
... Hamann believed that truth is always particular , never general ; genuine know- ledge is direct , gained through ... Hamann's sense ) is a ' basic instinct ' ( Grundtrieb ) without which we could not act at all.1 Words are symbols which ...
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... Hamann sees him as being , despite himself , a kind of ally . Just as nature ' , Hamann writes to Lindner in 1759 , ' furnishes an area of poisonous weeds with antidotes in close proximity , and the Nile knows how to couple the ...
... Hamann sees him as being , despite himself , a kind of ally . Just as nature ' , Hamann writes to Lindner in 1759 , ' furnishes an area of poisonous weeds with antidotes in close proximity , and the Nile knows how to couple the ...
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... Hamann began to translate the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , which Hume's nephew David published in 1779 , three years after the author's death . The first edition of the Dialogues appeared on 21 July ; a year later , on 7 ...
... Hamann began to translate the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion , which Hume's nephew David published in 1779 , three years after the author's death . The first edition of the Dialogues appeared on 21 July ; a year later , on 7 ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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