Against The Current

Essays in the History of Ideas

Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Essays, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, History
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Author: Isaiah Berlin ISBN: 9781446496190
Publisher: Random House Publication: June 30, 2012
Imprint: Vintage Digital Language: English
Author: Isaiah Berlin
ISBN: 9781446496190
Publisher: Random House
Publication: June 30, 2012
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Language: English

Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life.

Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.

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Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life.

Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.

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