Against the Current

Essays in the History of Ideas

By: Isaiah Berlin

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Paperback | 28 November 1997 | Edition Number 1

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Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom.

Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life.

Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.

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"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" * Encounter * "Berlin expounds with idea of half-forgotten thinkers with luminous clarity and imaginative empathy... exhilirating to read" * Observer * "The most imaginative, distinguished and erudite of historians of ideas in this country" -- Anthony Quinton * Spectator * "Isaiah Berlin has a masterly grasp. He is one of the most concerned liberal minds in Europe" -- V.S. Pritchett * New Statesman *

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Author's Note	p. vii
Editor's Preface	p. ix
Note to the Princeton Edition	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiii
The Counter-Enlightenment	p. 1
The Originality of Machiavelli	p. 25
The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities	p. 80
Vico's Concept of Knowledge	p. 111
Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment	p. 120
Montesquieu	p. 130
Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism	p. 162
Herzen and his Memoirs	p. 188
The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess	p. 213
Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity	p. 252
The 'Naivete' of Verdi	p. 287
Georges Sorel	p. 296
Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power	p. 333
A Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin	p. 357
Index	p. 399
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