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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... 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 consequences no one (except perhaps Jean-Jacques Rousseau) had bothered ...
... Descartes with his doctrine of clear and distinct ideas, or Leibniz with his notion of a mathesis universalis, or latter-day positivists with their atomic propositions and protocol sentences, or phenomenalists and sense-data theorists ...
... , and the rejection by philosophers like Vico of Descartes and the rationalists of his time, or the. 1All three essays are reprinted in CC. 1Reprinted in Liberty (xxiv/1). 2'Austin and the Early Beginnings of Introduction • xxxix.
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy. of Descartes and the rationalists of his time, or the attitude of visionaries and thinkers like Hamann and Herder to the doctrines of the French Enlightenment ...
... Descartes with his doctrine of clear and distinct ideas, his contempt for historical and humane studies generally, and his attempts to assimilate all forms of knowledge to that of one kind, namely mathematics; and, on the other, the ...
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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