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 192
... French refugee who had emigrated to Russia after the French Revo- lution . The Frenchman did not reveal his political opinions , so Herzen tells us , until one day , when his pupil asked him why Louis XVI had been executed ; to this he ...
... French refugee who had emigrated to Russia after the French Revo- lution . The Frenchman did not reveal his political opinions , so Herzen tells us , until one day , when his pupil asked him why Louis XVI had been executed ; to this he ...
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... French Revolution , referred to with fervour at civic gatherings in French provincial towns , lives on as a vague but ardent image that commands loyalty and stimulates action of a particular kind , but a myth that can- not , any more ...
... French Revolution , referred to with fervour at civic gatherings in French provincial towns , lives on as a vague but ardent image that commands loyalty and stimulates action of a particular kind , but a myth that can- not , any more ...
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... French aesthetic legislators , which cramped the free development of the spirit . - But besides the arrogant French , there were domestic tyrants , social and not merely aesthetic . The great outburst of individual indignation against ...
... French aesthetic legislators , which cramped the free development of the spirit . - But besides the arrogant French , there were domestic tyrants , social and not merely aesthetic . The great outburst of individual indignation against ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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