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Against The Current : Essays In The History Of Ideas - 79 edition

by Isaiah Berlin and Henry ed. Hardy

Against The Current : Essays In The History Of Ideas (ISBN10: 0691090262; ISBN13: 9780691090269)
ISBN13: 978-0691090269
ISBN10: 0691090262

Summary: In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--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.

Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 199 ...show more7, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, and, from Princeton, Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, and Three Critics of the Enlightenment. Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 79
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year Published: 1979

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