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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... radical unrest experienced the world over during the past decade . Indeed , surveying the modern world , Berlin detects at the heart of the most disparate movements , from the nationalist tide in the Third World to the radical unrest ...
... radical unrest experienced the world over during the past decade . Indeed , surveying the modern world , Berlin detects at the heart of the most disparate movements , from the nationalist tide in the Third World to the radical unrest ...
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... radical of these trends was the continuing underground tradition of out - and - out communism , preached by the proscribed followers of the executed revolutionary Babeuf , who declared that not merely the love , but the possession , of ...
... radical of these trends was the continuing underground tradition of out - and - out communism , preached by the proscribed followers of the executed revolutionary Babeuf , who declared that not merely the love , but the possession , of ...
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... radical and a revolutionary - but because through his most extreme and radical beliefs there persists a conviction that there is never any duty to maim or impoverish oneself for the sake of an abstract ideal ; that nobody can , or ...
... radical and a revolutionary - but because through his most extreme and radical beliefs there persists a conviction that there is never any duty to maim or impoverish oneself for the sake of an abstract ideal ; that nobody can , or ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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