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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Lilla, Mark -- Author's Note -- Editor's Preface / Mill, J.S. -- Note on References -- Introduction / Hausheer, Roger -- 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 'Naivety' of Verdi -- Georges Sorel -- Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power -- Appendix to the Second Edition -- Index / Matthews, Douglas |
| Summary |
In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom. In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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Idea (Philosophy)
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Philosophy
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philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism.
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Idea (Philosophy)
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Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hardy, Henry, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781400843237 |
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1400843235 |
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9781446496190 |
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1446496198 |
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