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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... conceived as playing specific melodies , but as producing sounds which , although they might not be wholly intelligible to any given group of players ( and might even sound discordant or super- fluous if taken in isolation ) , yet ...
... conceived as playing specific melodies , but as producing sounds which , although they might not be wholly intelligible to any given group of players ( and might even sound discordant or super- fluous if taken in isolation ) , yet ...
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... conceived , at least in outline ; for otherwise what standard could one use to condemn exist- ing arrangements as imperfect ? It might not be realisable here , below . Men were too ignorant or too weak or too vicious to create it . Or ...
... conceived , at least in outline ; for otherwise what standard could one use to condemn exist- ing arrangements as imperfect ? It might not be realisable here , below . Men were too ignorant or too weak or too vicious to create it . Or ...
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... conceived , spontaneously generated , image or pattern . The productive activity itself brings this pattern to birth and alters it - as it fulfils itself freely , obedient to no law , being conceived as a kind of natural spring of ...
... conceived , spontaneously generated , image or pattern . The productive activity itself brings this pattern to birth and alters it - as it fulfils itself freely , obedient to no law , being conceived as a kind of natural spring of ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Alexander Herzen ancient believed Benjamin Disraeli Berlin called central century Christian civilisation common conceived conception conscious Counter-Enlightenment created culture Descartes Disraeli doctrine E. H. Carr empirical ends Enlightenment essays fact faith feeling French Georges Sorel German Giambattista Vico Hamann Hegel Henry Hardy Herder Herzen Hess Hess's human Hume Hume's ibid ideal ideas imagination individual intellectual Italian Jewish Jews justice Kant Karl Marx knowledge language laws liberal lives London Machiavelli mankind Marx Marxist metaphysical methods modern Montesquieu moral Moses Hess movement myth natural sciences Niccolò Machiavelli organisation original outlook passionate perhaps philosophical political Prince principles proletariat radical rationalist realise reality reason religion repr revolution revolutionary Roman rules Russian scepticism scientific seems sense social socialist society Sorel Spinoza spirit theory thinkers thought tion tradition trans true truth understand universal values Verdi Vico Vico's vision Voltaire wholly writings