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Against the current : essays in the history of ideas

Title
Against the current : essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy ; with an introd. by Roger Hausheer.
Author
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Publication
New York : Viking Press, 1980.

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Additional Authors
Hardy, Henry
Description
liii, 394 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 356-373.
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.
ISBN
0670109444
LCCN
79022928
OCLC
  • 5564831
  • ocm05564831
  • SCSB-2164813
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries