Against the current : essays in the history of ideas
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Against the current : essays in the history of ideas
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 2001
- : pbk
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First pub.: The Hogarth Press 1979
"Pimlico edition first published in 1997" -- T.p. verso
"First Princeton edition, 2001" -- T.p. verso
"A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin" : p. 357-398
Includes index
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Description
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom - 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.
Table of Contents
Author's Note vii Editor's preface ix Note to the Princeton Edition vii Introduction by Roger Hausheer xiii The Counter-Enlightenment 1 The Originality of Machiavelli 25 The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities 80 Vico's Concept of Knowledge 111 Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment 120 Montesquieu 130 Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism 162 Herzen and his Memoirs 188 The Life and opinions and Moses Hess 213 Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity 252 The "Naivete" of verdi 287 Georges Sorel 296 Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present power 333 A Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin 357 Index 399
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