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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Page 88
... Voltaire . Its earliest and strongest opponent was the Neapolitan philosopher Giam- battista Vico . The contrast between their views may serve to throw light upon the radical difference of attitudes which brought about a crucial parting ...
... Voltaire . Its earliest and strongest opponent was the Neapolitan philosopher Giam- battista Vico . The contrast between their views may serve to throw light upon the radical difference of attitudes which brought about a crucial parting ...
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... Voltaire well : it enabled him to discredit much clerical propaganda and a good many naïve and pedantic absurdities . But it also told him that the empires of Babylon and Assyria could not possibly have coexisted next door to each other ...
... Voltaire well : it enabled him to discredit much clerical propaganda and a good many naïve and pedantic absurdities . But it also told him that the empires of Babylon and Assyria could not possibly have coexisted next door to each other ...
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... Voltaire denounced Europocentrism ; he sketched the need for social , economic , cultural history , which , even though he did not himself realise his programme ( his own histories are marvellously readable but largely anecdotal in ...
... Voltaire denounced Europocentrism ; he sketched the need for social , economic , cultural history , which , even though he did not himself realise his programme ( his own histories are marvellously readable but largely anecdotal in ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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