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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... Rationalism' © Edinburgh University Press 1977 'Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment'© Social Research 1979 Selection and editorial matter © Henry Hardy 1979, 2013 Introduction © Roger Hausheer 1979 Foreword © Princeton University ...
... Rationalism Herzen and His Memoirs The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity The 'Naivety' of Verdi Georges Sorel Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power Appendix to the Second ...
... rationalism: Hamann speaks for those who hear the cry of the toad beneath the harrow1 [...]. His own cry came from an ... rationalist schools, not only in his own century, but in the great Victorian advance and its continuation in ...
... Rationalism' was a 1It is sometimes said that Berlin invented this term in titling this essay. In fact it was used decades before by Charles Gray Shaw in his The Precinct of Religion in the Culture of Humanity (London, 1908), 9, and in ...
... rationalistic surface of the thought of an age when a small but at times passionate voice of opposition, overlooked, misinterpreted or ridiculed by its contemporaries, utters in an often fragmentary or semi-articulate form novel ideas ...
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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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