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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... principles for those of reason , political unity and centralisa- tion . For Hegel he is the man of genius who saw the need for uniting a chaotic collection of small and feeble principalities into a coherent whole ; his specific nostrums ...
... principles for those of reason , political unity and centralisa- tion . For Hegel he is the man of genius who saw the need for uniting a chaotic collection of small and feeble principalities into a coherent whole ; his specific nostrums ...
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... principle , be taught to competent but uninspired practitioners , in the way in which , for example , chemical or physical methods can , to a large extent , be taught . Montesquieu's principles resemble maxims and aphorisms more than ...
... principle , be taught to competent but uninspired practitioners , in the way in which , for example , chemical or physical methods can , to a large extent , be taught . Montesquieu's principles resemble maxims and aphorisms more than ...
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... principles of the newly discovered scientific truth about social existence . When the great French Revolution failed to make men happy and virtuous overnight , some of its adherents claimed either that the new principles had not been ...
... principles of the newly discovered scientific truth about social existence . When the great French Revolution failed to make men happy and virtuous overnight , some of its adherents claimed either that the new principles had not been ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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