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

（Selected writings）

Viking Press, 1980

Note

Bibliography: p. 356-373

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The counter-enlightenment
• The originality of Machiavelli
• The divorce between the sciences and the humanities
• Vico's concept of knowledge
• Vico and the ideal of the enlightenment
• Montesquieu
• Hume and the sources of German anti-rationalism
• Herzen and his memoirs
• The life and opinions of Moses Hess
• Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the search for identity
• The "naïveté" of Verdi
• Georges Sorel
• Nationalism

Details

• NCID: BA43260710
• ISBN:
  • 0670109444
• LCCN: 79022928
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: liii, 394 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B29
  • DC : 109
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0489099X