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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... 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-Rationalism Herzen and His Memoirs The Life and ...
... Machiavelli and his followers did with Tacitus. Montaigne leaned more on Plutarch, who also provided a model for his own venture in philosophical biography, the essay 'Of Friendship', which evokes the life and ideas of his friend ...
... Machiavelli as a proto-pluralist has often provoked lively discussion, here reflected in his letters to Jean Floud, A. J. P. Taylor, Joseph Alsop and Sidney Hook (the letter to whom touches on several other issues as well). His letter ...
... Machiavelli. Here Berlin advances the thesis that for some four hundred years Machiavelli has caused sharp disagreement between scholars and civilised men, and deeply troubled Christian and liberal consciences, not because of his ...
... Machiavelli does not, therefore, reject Christian morality in favour of some amoral science of means, but in the ... Machiavelli's major achievements: he was, as Berlin remarks, 'in spite of himself, one of the makers of pluralism'.1 VI ...
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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