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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... Herder thought necessary to understand an alien culture. In Contre Sainte-Beuve Proust used a musical metaphor to describe how he used to read as a young man: As soon as I read an author, I quickly made out beneath the words a kind of ...
... Herder in Frederick the Great's Prussia, or the vicomte de Bonald and Joseph de Maistre in exile after the French Revolution. But their common conviction that something had gone terribly wrong in philosophy inspired them to. 1Marcel ...
... / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad.' Departmental Ditties and Other Verses (1886), 2nd ed. (Calcutta, 1886), 43. 1Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder, ed. Henry xvi • Mark Lilla.
... Herder, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton, 2000), 350, 354, 355. 2Johann Georg Hamann, Briefwechsel, ed. Walther Ziesemer and Arthur Henkel (Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, 1955–79) (hereafter B), i 379. 30; Immanuel Kant, Correspondence, trans. and ...
... Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (London and New York, 1976). These two collections are now incorporated in Liberty and Three Critics of the Enlightenment respectively (see next note). Other collections had appeared only in ...
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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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