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Publisher
Viking Press
Language
English
Pages
394

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Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
2001, Princeton University Press
in English - 1st Princeton ed.
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1997, Pimlico
in English
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1982, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Against the current
Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
1980, Viking Press
in English
Cover of: Against the Current
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
1979, Hogarth Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 356-373.
Includes index.

Series
[His Selected writings ;, 3]

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
109
Library of Congress
B29 .B445

The Physical Object

Pagination
liii, 394 p. ;
Number of pages
394

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Open Library
OL4418758M
Internet Archive
againstcurrentes0000berl_m8u0
ISBN 10
0670109444
LCCN
79022928
OCLC/WorldCat
5564831
Library Thing
101559
Goodreads
4060225

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