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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... philosophers Fichte and Schelling. Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities at Columbia University, coedited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001). His latest book is The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007). For ...
... and Categories], in Frans Boenders, Sprekend gedacht (Bussum, 1980), 180; ›http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/lists/interviews/boenders.pdf›, 11. 1ibid.; cf. Isaiah Berlin, Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, ed. Foreword.
... thirty. 1ibid.; cf. Isaiah Berlin, Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, ed. Henry Hardy (London, 1978), xii. 1Marcel Proust, Contre Sainte-Beuve [first published posthumously in 1954] (Paris, x • Mark Lilla.
... philosophers relied heavily on these stories to illustrate their own ideas, or to mask them, as Machiavelli and his followers did with Tacitus. Montaigne leaned more on Plutarch, who also provided a model for his own venture in ...
... philosophical intent, second-rate minds grappling with first-rate problems can teach you more than first-rate minds lost in the shrubbery. (Another reason, perhaps, that he abandoned analytic philosophy.) He clearly enjoyed picking up ...
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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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