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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... Social Demo- cratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 his family came to England, and he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a Fellow of All Souls, a Fellow of New College, Professor of Social ...
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Contents
Foreword by Mark Lilla | ix |
Editors Preface | xxiii |
The CounterEnlightenment | 1 |
The Originality of Machiavelli | 33 |
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities | 101 |
Vicos Concept of Knowledge | 140 |
Montesquieu | 164 |
Hume and the Sources of German AntiRationalism | 204 |
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