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 55
... seems to me mistaken is the idea that Machiavelli viewed the crimes of his society with anguish . ( Chabod in his excellent study , unlike Croce and some Croceans , does not insist on this . ) This entails that he accepts the dire ...
... seems to me mistaken is the idea that Machiavelli viewed the crimes of his society with anguish . ( Chabod in his excellent study , unlike Croce and some Croceans , does not insist on this . ) This entails that he accepts the dire ...
Page 122
... seems to leave no room for the radical transformation of history , once and for all , by the incarnation and the resurrection of Christ , nor for the movement of history toward the single far - off divine event by which it is completed ...
... seems to leave no room for the radical transformation of history , once and for all , by the incarnation and the resurrection of Christ , nor for the movement of history toward the single far - off divine event by which it is completed ...
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... seems as if Hess , with his naïveté , his traditional Jewish morality , his pleas for justice and his quotations from Spinoza and the Bible , may not , after all , have been as profoundly mistaken as the more celebrated founders of ...
... seems as if Hess , with his naïveté , his traditional Jewish morality , his pleas for justice and his quotations from Spinoza and the Bible , may not , after all , have been as profoundly mistaken as the more celebrated founders of ...
Contents
Authors Note page | vii |
The CounterEnlightenment I | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 25 |
Copyright | |
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