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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... ideas /Isaiah Berlin; edited by Henry Hardy; introduction by Roger Hausheer; foreword by Mark Lilla. – Second edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-15610-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Philosophy. I ...
... ideas sprout wings and escape the body, like the souls in Plato's Phaedrus. This was not Berlin's assumption. His instinct told him that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand ...
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy. would persist, could metastasise into nationalistic ideologies bent on erasing the identity of others. Isaiah Berlin was a liberal, a child of the Enlightenment ...
Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy. formidable consequences on both thought and action, not least in our own terrible century.1 In a sense, Berlin's 'cases' in the history of ideas are closer in ...
... ideas one mainly studies interesting failures. Which, as scientists know, is more fruitful than studying success. Why do philosophers get things wrong? Berlin's essays suggest that in the interesting 'cases' it has less to do with ...
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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