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Essays in the History of Ideas

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Publisher
Hogarth Press
Language
English
Pages
394

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Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
2001, Princeton University Press
in English - 1st Princeton ed.
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1997, Pimlico
in English
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1982, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1980, Viking Press
in English
Cover of: Against the Current
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
1979, Hogarth Press
in English

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Table of 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-rantionalism.
Herzen and his memoirs.
The life and opinions of Moses Hess.
Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the search for his identity.
The "naïveté" of Verdi.
Georges Sorel.
Nationalism.
A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin

Edition Notes

Includes index

Bibliography: p. 356-373

Published in
London
Series
His Selected writings

Contributors

Editor
Henry Hardy
Introduction
Roger Hausheer

The Physical Object

Pagination
liii, 394 p. ;
Number of pages
394

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Open Library
OL16333186M
Internet Archive
againstcurrentes0000berl
ISBN 10
0701204397
OCLC/WorldCat
5373489
Library Thing
101559
Goodreads
6814176

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