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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... 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 Mark Lilla To one who thinks philosophically, no story ...
... Verdi' was published in Atti del I Congresso internazionale di studi verdiani, 1966 (Parma, 1969: Istituto di Studi Verdiani) 'Georges Sorel' was a Creighton Lecture published first in The Times Literary Supplement, 31 December 1971 ...
... Verdi. By applying to him the distinction first drawn by Schiller between naive and sentimental artists, Berlin brings out something essential in Verdi which is easily overlooked. The 'naive' artist is whole and undivided, at one with ...
... to the age. Growing interest in them is, to use his own memorable words on the works of Verdi, 'a symptom of sanity in our time'.1 The Counter-Enlightenment I Opposition to the central ideas of the 1 372. Introduction • lxxxiii.
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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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