An edition of Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (1979)

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
394

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Subjects

Philosophy, Philosophie, Aufsatzsammlung, History, English Philosophy, Idé- och lärdomshistoria, Filosofi, Historia, Socialism, World politics, B29 .b445 1997

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1982, Penguin
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1981, Oxford University Press
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1980, Viking Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 356-373.

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Oxford [Oxfordshire]
Series
Selected writings / Isaiah Berlin -- 3

The Physical Object

Pagination
liii, 394 pages
Number of pages
394

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Open Library
OL43740639M
ISBN 10
0192830287
LCCN
gb91058114
OCLC/WorldCat
16543677, 24795076

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