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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Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition Isaiah Berlin Henry Hardy. psychological sciences ... sciences, as so much passive, inexpressive material moulded by impersonal ... natural objects. The history of ideas, because it attempts ( ...
... natural sciences, which he sees as the most successful single endeavour of the human intellect in modern times; and just as often he reiterates the conviction that all phenomena that are properly tractable by the quantitative methods of ...
... natural sciences on the one hand, and the formal ones of mathematics, logic and other deductive disciplines on the ... science or formal discipline, the number of irreducible, unanswerable philosophical questions – and here Berlin ...
... natural languages could be shown to be more or less inadequate ... sciences and humane studies,1 and the breach blown in the ideal of steady ... scientific development is correct, that too is Vichian. 1[A phrase coined by Jacob Burckhardt ...
... natural, empirical sciences; that all statements with a claim to truth must be in principle publicly testable by any rational being; that there were and could be no other sources of genuine knowledge, transcendent or non-rational ...
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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