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 85
... historians , and their shameless inventions to cover up their ignorance or fill gaps in know- ledge where there is no available evidence ; on the absurdity of idealising the characters of the main actors in the story ; he speaks of the ...
... historians , and their shameless inventions to cover up their ignorance or fill gaps in know- ledge where there is no available evidence ; on the absurdity of idealising the characters of the main actors in the story ; he speaks of the ...
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... historian should not peddle fables , like Herodotus , who is like an old woman telling stories to children , but teach ... Historians must not clutter the minds of their readers with accounts of religious wars or other stupidities that ...
... historian should not peddle fables , like Herodotus , who is like an old woman telling stories to children , but teach ... Historians must not clutter the minds of their readers with accounts of religious wars or other stupidities that ...
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... historians of science too , and most of all by historians and sociologists of culture influenced by this tradition , are not as a 1 Erich Auerbach seems to me to have put this with eloquence and precision : ' When people realise that ...
... historians of science too , and most of all by historians and sociologists of culture influenced by this tradition , are not as a 1 Erich Auerbach seems to me to have put this with eloquence and precision : ' When people realise that ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
Introduction by Roger Hausheer | xiii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
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