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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... revolutionary , depending on which systematic order was being attacked . Those , for example , like Adam Müller or Friedrich Schlegel , and , in some moods , Coleridge or Cobbett , to whom the principles of the French Revolution or the ...
... revolutionary , depending on which systematic order was being attacked . Those , for example , like Adam Müller or Friedrich Schlegel , and , in some moods , Coleridge or Cobbett , to whom the principles of the French Revolution or the ...
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... revolution of 1848 which brought about his disillusionment and a new , more pessimistic realism . This is not suffi ... revolution was added a personal tragedy - the seduction of his adored wife by the most intimate of his new friends ...
... revolution of 1848 which brought about his disillusionment and a new , more pessimistic realism . This is not suffi ... revolution was added a personal tragedy - the seduction of his adored wife by the most intimate of his new friends ...
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... revolution in Europe . This is perfectly intelligible , since he and his fellow revolutionaries believed that this was where the centre of world power lay , that the proletarian revolution in Europe would automatically liberate the ...
... revolution in Europe . This is perfectly intelligible , since he and his fellow revolutionaries believed that this was where the centre of world power lay , that the proletarian revolution in Europe would automatically liberate the ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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