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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.

Title
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.
Author
Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Publication
London : Pimlico, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Hardy, Henry.
Description
liii, 410 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Pimlico ; 269
Uniform Title
Pimlico (Series) ; 269.
Subject
Philosophy
Note
  • Originally published: London: Hogarth Press, 1979.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The counter-enlightenment. -- The originality of Machavelli. -- 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: past neglected and present power. -- A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin.
ISBN
0712666907 (pbk)
LCCN
gb^97067729^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library