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Against the current : essays in the history of ideas /

In 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...

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Main Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 (Author)
Other Authors: Hardy, Henry (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Idea (Philosophy)
Philosophy
philosophy.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781400843237
1400843235
9781446496190
1446496198
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Lilla, Mark
  • Author's Note
  • Editor's Preface / Mill, J.S.
  • Note on References
  • Introduction / Hausheer, Roger
  • 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 'Naivety' of Verdi
  • Georges Sorel
  • Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power
  • Appendix to the Second Edition
  • Index / Matthews, Douglas.

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