Three critics of the Enlightenment : Vico, Hamann, Herder / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Contributor:

Hardy, Henry.

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Pimlico (Series) ; 372.

Princeton paperbacks

Pimlico ; 372

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vico, Giambattista, 1668-1744.

Vico, Giambattista.

Hamann, Johann Georg, 1730-1788.

Hamann, Johann Georg.

Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803.

Herder, Johann Gottfried.

Irrationalism (Philosophy)--History--18th century.

Irrationalism (Philosophy).

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 382 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on Vico, Hamann, and Herder. These essays on three relatively uncelebrated thinkers are not marginal ruminations, but rather among Berlin's most important studies in the history of ideas. They are integral to his central project: the critical recovery of the ideas of the Counter-Enlightenment and the explanation of its appeal and consequences -- both positive and (often) tragic.

Giambattista Vico was the anachronistic and impoverished Neapolitan philosopher sometimes credited with founding the human sciences. He opposed Enlightenment methods as cold and fallacious. J. G. Hamann was a pious, cranky dilettante in a peripheral German city. But he was brilliant enough to gain the audience of Kant, Goethe, and Moses Mendelssohn. In Hamann's chaotic and long-ignored writings, Berlin finds the first strong attack on Enlightenment rationalism and a wholly original source of the coming swell of romanticism. Johann Gottfried Herder, the progenitor of populism and European nationalism, rejected universalism and rationalsim but championed cultural pluralism.

Contents:

Vico and Herder 1

The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico 21

Vico's Theory of Knowledge and its Sources 122

Herder and the Enlightenment 168

The Magus of the North 243

2 Life 258

3 The central core 272

4 The Enlightenment 276

5 Knowledge 280

6 Language 313

7 Creative genius 330

8 Politics 341

Appendix Excursus to chapter 6 359.

Notes:

"Incorporating Vico and Herder and The magus of the north."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997. Vico and Herder.

Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997. Magus of the north.

ISBN:

0691057265

0691057273

OCLC:

43694277