Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Brossura

Berlin, Isaiah

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ISBN 10: 0691090262 ISBN 13: 9780691090269

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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"Isaiah Berlin was the most esteemed intellectual figure in the English-speaking world. Against the Current may be the most representative of [his] books."--Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

"Berlin expounds the ideas of half-forgotten thinkers with luminous clarity and imaginative empathy. . . . exhilarating to read."--Keith Thomas, Observer

"A most remarkable intellectual achievement. There are few books published in our time which more dazzlingly illuminate some of the most crucial problems of western culture and civilisation."--Goronwy Rees, Encounter

Contenuti:

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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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0691090262
• ISBN 13: 9780691090269
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Redattore: Hardy Henry