Against the current : essays in the history of ideas

Author(s)

• Berlin, Isaiah, Sir
• Hardy, Henry
• Hausheer, Roger

Bibliographic Information

Against the current : essays in the history of ideas

Isaiah Berlin ; edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy ; with an introduction by Roger Hausheer

（Pimlico, 269）

Pimlico, 1997

• : pbk

Note

First pub.: The Hogarth Press 1979

"A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin" : p. 356-389

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.

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Details

• NCID: BA34530825
• ISBN:
  • 0712666907
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: liii, 410 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18864783