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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... rationalism , Berlin examines the notions of perhaps the most radical antinomian thinker in this volume , J. G. Hamann . As a ... rationalist tradition , and transmuted them into something like their opposites . ' He represents the most ...
... rationalism , Berlin examines the notions of perhaps the most radical antinomian thinker in this volume , J. G. Hamann . As a ... rationalist tradition , and transmuted them into something like their opposites . ' He represents the most ...
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... rationalism . He seemed to them to have finally undermined the notion of unalterable categories of experience , as ... rationalist edifice ( and indeed , after him , despite the efforts of later philosophers , the old confidence never ...
... rationalism . He seemed to them to have finally undermined the notion of unalterable categories of experience , as ... rationalist edifice ( and indeed , after him , despite the efforts of later philosophers , the old confidence never ...
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... rationalism , see reason Raymond , E. T. ( pseudonym of Edward Raymond Thompson ) , 270 reality , cohesion of , xviii , xix , 61 , 68-70 , 80 , 301-2 ; conflict with ideal , 68-9 ; Vico on categorising , 106 ; Hamann on particularity of ...
... rationalism , see reason Raymond , E. T. ( pseudonym of Edward Raymond Thompson ) , 270 reality , cohesion of , xviii , xix , 61 , 68-70 , 80 , 301-2 ; conflict with ideal , 68-9 ; Vico on categorising , 106 ; Hamann on particularity of ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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