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Against the Current : Essays in the History of Ideas by ISAIAH BERLIN, Isaiah Berlin, edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer, Berlin, Isaiah is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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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.'this Is An Exceptional Volume By A Remarkable Intellectual. Berlin's Essays Are Wide-ranging, Rich, Deeply Learned, And Elegant.mitchell Cohen, City University Of New York anthony Storr - Independent On Sunday a Historian Of Ideas, [berlin] Has No Equal; And What He Has To Say Is Expressed In Prose Of Exceptional Lucidity And Grace.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- ISAIAH BERLIN, Isaiah Berlin, edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy, with an introduction by Roger Hausheer, Berlin, Isaiah
- Publisher
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691090269
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Philosophy, History
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (147 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14