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Against the current: essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Berlin, Isaiah, Selections ; v. 3.Publication details: London : The Hogarth Press, 1980.Description: liii, 394p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780140060492
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 192.08
Contents:
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.--A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 356-373.

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.--A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin.

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