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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... culture to culture . The basic empirical content of what a culture saw and heard , thought and felt , might change but little if at all , but some of the models in terms of which it was perceived and organised - the spectacles through ...
... culture to culture . The basic empirical content of what a culture saw and heard , thought and felt , might change but little if at all , but some of the models in terms of which it was perceived and organised - the spectacles through ...
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... culture . Each culture expresses its own collective experience , each step on the ladder of human development has its own equally authentic means of expression . Vico's theory of cycles of cultural development became celebrated , but it ...
... culture . Each culture expresses its own collective experience , each step on the ladder of human development has its own equally authentic means of expression . Vico's theory of cycles of cultural development became celebrated , but it ...
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... culture is a mere means towards another ; every human achievement , every human society is to be judged by its own internal standards . In spite of the fact that in later life he attempted to construct a theory of history in which the ...
... culture is a mere means towards another ; every human achievement , every human society is to be judged by its own internal standards . In spite of the fact that in later life he attempted to construct a theory of history in which the ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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