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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... Karl Marx, Russian Thinkers, Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the ...
... (2001). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007). For further information about Isaiah Berlin visit ‹http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/› Also by Isaiah Berlin * Karl Marx The Hedgehog and.
... Karl Marx The Hedgehog and the Fox The Age of Enlightenment Russian Thinkers Concepts and Categories Personal Impressions The Crooked Timber of Humanity The Sense of Reality The Proper Study of Mankind The Roots of Romanticism The Power ...
... Karl Marx and the Search for Identity The 'Naivety' of Verdi Georges Sorel Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power Appendix to the Second Edition Index xxi xxiii xxix xxxi 33 101 140 151 204 236 267 317 361 373 420 449 467 Foreword ...
... Karl Marx and the Search for Identity' appeared in Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 22 (1968–9) (London, 1970: Jewish Historical Society of England) 'The “Naivety” of Verdi' was published in Atti del I Congresso ...
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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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