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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... Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism' © Edinburgh University Press 1977 'Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment'© Social Research 1979 Selection and editorial matter © Henry Hardy 1979, 2013 Introduction © Roger Hausheer ...
... Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism Herzen and His Memoirs The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity The 'Naivety' of Verdi Georges Sorel Nationalism: Past Neglect and ...
... Hume's scepticism and became a leading proponent of it in Germany. This was unexpected. After all, Hume's arguments about reason's inability to infer cause from effect were intended to undermine the claims of religion. Hamann, though ...
... Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism' was a 1It is sometimes said that Berlin invented this term in titling this essay. In fact it was used decades before by Charles Gray Shaw in his The Precinct of Religion in the Culture of ...
... Hume: Bicentennial Papers (Edinburgh, 1977: Edinburgh University Press)1 'Herzen and his Memoirs' is the introduction to Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, translated by Constance Garnett (London, 1968: Chatto and Windus; New York ...
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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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