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 xxxix
... wholly out of his element – a victim of social dis- integration and the dissolutions of traditional ties and bonds brought about by the scientific revolution and centralising industrialism whose life is a long , and often bitter and ...
... wholly out of his element – a victim of social dis- integration and the dissolutions of traditional ties and bonds brought about by the scientific revolution and centralising industrialism whose life is a long , and often bitter and ...
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... wholly sincere , as Ridolfi and Alderisio believe ; Capponi may have exaggerated the extent to which he ' drove religion from his heart ' , even though ' it was not wholly extinct in his thought ' . The point is that there is scarcely ...
... wholly sincere , as Ridolfi and Alderisio believe ; Capponi may have exaggerated the extent to which he ' drove religion from his heart ' , even though ' it was not wholly extinct in his thought ' . The point is that there is scarcely ...
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... wholly clear , irrefutable propositions of universal validity . But this was so not because the language of mathematics was a reflection of the basic and unalterable structure of reality , as thinkers since the days of Plato or even ...
... wholly clear , irrefutable propositions of universal validity . But this was so not because the language of mathematics was a reflection of the basic and unalterable structure of reality , as thinkers since the days of Plato or even ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment | xxv |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
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