Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second EditionIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--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--and still challenge conventional wisdom. |
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... Counter-Enlightenment 1 The Originality of Machiavelli The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities Vico's Concept of Knowledge Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment Montesquieu 164 Hume and the Sources of German Anti ...
... Counter-Enlightenment. Strictly speaking, there was no such thing as a Counter-Enlightenment, no club to join or set of doctrines to profess. It was a term Berlin used to identify a group of dissident modern thinkers dismayed by the ...
... Counter-Enlightenment saw in the works of Francis Bacon and René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, Immanuel Kant and G. E. Lessing, Voltaire and the editors of the Encyclopédie was a blind act of human self-assertion whose ...
... Counter-Enlightenment' and ends with essays on nationalism and Georges Sorel, the French defender of revolutionary violence. It is a book that can be profitably read front to back, or back to front. Either way, it shows that the ...
... Counter-Enlightenment'1 appeared in the Dictionary of the History of. 1The Roots of Romanticism (London and Princeton, 1999); The Power of Ideas (London and Princeton, 2000); Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder ...
Contents
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The Originality of Machiavelli | 33 |
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities | 101 |
Hume and the Sources of German AntiRationalism | 204 |
Herzen and His Memoirs | 236 |
The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess | 267 |
Benjamin Disraeli Karl Marx and the Search for Identity | 317 |
The Naivety of Verdi | 361 |
Georges Sorel | 373 |
Past Neglect and Present Power | 420 |
Appendix to the Second Edition | 449 |
Vicos Concept of Knowledge | 140 |
Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment | 151 |
Montesquieu | 164 |
Index | 467 |
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