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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... culture. In Contre Sainte-Beuve Proust used a musical metaphor to describe how he used to read as a young man: As soon as I read an author, I quickly made out beneath the words a kind of tune that in each author is different from that ...
... culture, history and political authority. But Berlin's own writings on them point to deeper issues still. By reading widely and sympathetically in their writings, Berlin began to understand that what was ultimately at stake for them was ...
... Cultural Revolution and even the Black Panthers (it was written in 1971). Other essays introduce us to Moses Hess and Benjamin Disraeli, whose very different Jewish lives illustrate the moral and psychological complexities of ...
... Culture under Communism (Washington, 2004); and Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (London and Princeton, 2006). 2They are, respectively, items 37, 74,79, 98,38, 159, 73,143, 128, 170, 181, 196 and 200. This bibliography (included in ...
... Culture of Humanity (London, 1908), 9, and in his entry on 'Culture' in James Hastings and others (eds), Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh, 1908–26), iv 358. It also appears before 1973 in Arthur Preston Whitaker and others ...
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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