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.

Imprint:New York : Viking Press, 1980.

Descriptionliii, 394 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:His Selected writings, v. 3

Note:Includes index.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 356-373.

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