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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... 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 Mark Lilla To one who thinks philosophically, no story CONTENTS.
... Sorel, the French defender of revolutionary violence. It is a book that can be profitably read front to back, or back to front. Either way, it shows that the intellectual issues central to the Counter-Enlightenment have also been ...
... Sorel' was a Creighton Lecture published first in The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971, and then in an expanded form in Chimen Abramsky (ed.), Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr (London, 1974: Macmillan) 'Nationalism: Past ...
... Sorel. I could not have managed without the assistance of these scholars, and I record my gratitude to them. Isaiah Berlin himself, with unwavering courtesy, did his best to answer my virtually endless queries, and Pat Utechin, his ...
... Jerusalem 284/1 RV Sorel, Réflexions sur la violence 377/1 SS Herzen, collected works 204/1 T Hume, Treatise 216/3 W Hamann, works 10/1 Introduction Roger Hausheer Two extravagances: to exclude Reason, to admit Note on References.
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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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