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 xxii
... intellectual history of men - of cultures , civilisations , intellectual and political movements , and so forth . Berlin distinguishes a class of questions which are properly philosophical in the sense that there is no universally ...
... intellectual history of men - of cultures , civilisations , intellectual and political movements , and so forth . Berlin distinguishes a class of questions which are properly philosophical in the sense that there is no universally ...
Page 109
... intellectual and his- torical factors ; when , in other words , they come to develop a sense of his- torical dynamics , of the incomparability of historical phenomena . . . so that each epoch appears as a whole whose character is ...
... intellectual and his- torical factors ; when , in other words , they come to develop a sense of his- torical dynamics , of the incomparability of historical phenomena . . . so that each epoch appears as a whole whose character is ...
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... intellectual artefact . And Tacitus delighted him with his sharp insights into individual character in action , as he delighted Machiavelli . But none of this coalesced , none of it would have come to life in the new synthesis , the new ...
... intellectual artefact . And Tacitus delighted him with his sharp insights into individual character in action , as he delighted Machiavelli . But none of this coalesced , none of it would have come to life in the new synthesis , the new ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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