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Against the current : essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy ; with an introduction by Roger Hausheer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- liii, 401 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1989 (1991[printing])
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Hogarth Press, 1979.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-380) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997. Against the current.
- ISBN:
- 0192830287
- 9780192830289
- OCLC:
- 24795076
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