Against the Current : : Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition /

Against the Current : : Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition / / Isaiah Berlin; ed. by Henry Hardy.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Berlin, Isaiah,
HerausgeberIn:
Hardy, Henry,
MitwirkendeR:
Hausheer, Roger,
Lilla, Mark,
Matthews, Douglas,
Mill, J. S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Second edition with a New foreword by Mark Lilla
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Author's Note
  • Editor's Preface
  • Note on References
  • Introduction
  • 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

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