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 xxviii
... deeply troubled Christian and liberal consciences , not because of his alleged immorality and Satanism , but because , by advancing an alternative system of morality to that prevalent in his own day and since , he was perhaps the very ...
... deeply troubled Christian and liberal consciences , not because of his alleged immorality and Satanism , but because , by advancing an alternative system of morality to that prevalent in his own day and since , he was perhaps the very ...
Page 142
... deeply and directly than the more vehement controversialists of his time , and differs from them , not so much in his conception of the problems of behaviour as in his solutions and , of course , the tone and temper of the argument . He ...
... deeply and directly than the more vehement controversialists of his time , and differs from them , not so much in his conception of the problems of behaviour as in his solutions and , of course , the tone and temper of the argument . He ...
Page 219
... deeply irritated the tough - minded ' realists ' among his fellow socialists , who looked on him as a benevolent ass . Yet even 1 Sibylle Pesch was described as a street - walker in a Cologne police dossier of 1854 , and Hess's family ...
... deeply irritated the tough - minded ' realists ' among his fellow socialists , who looked on him as a benevolent ass . Yet even 1 Sibylle Pesch was described as a street - walker in a Cologne police dossier of 1854 , and Hess's family ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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