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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... sense of knowing which is basic to all humane studies : the sense in which I know what it is to be poor , to fight for a cause , to belong to a nation , to join or abandon a church or a party , to feel nostalgia , terror , the ...
... sense of knowing which is basic to all humane studies : the sense in which I know what it is to be poor , to fight for a cause , to belong to a nation , to join or abandon a church or a party , to feel nostalgia , terror , the ...
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... sense of reality ; and it guarantees the reality of what- ever it reveals . Our infallible conviction of our own ... sense , and therefore in the existence of a world beyond the senses . " 3 This seems to him to follow from Hume's ...
... sense of reality ; and it guarantees the reality of what- ever it reveals . Our infallible conviction of our own ... sense , and therefore in the existence of a world beyond the senses . " 3 This seems to him to follow from Hume's ...
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... sense of justice develops too , for justice , according to Proudhon ( to whom Sorel's debt is greater than even to Marx ) , is something that springs from the feeling of indig- nation aroused by the humiliation inflicted on others ...
... sense of justice develops too , for justice , according to Proudhon ( to whom Sorel's debt is greater than even to Marx ) , is something that springs from the feeling of indig- nation aroused by the humiliation inflicted on others ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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