Against the Current

Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

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Isaiah Berlin

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In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--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 curr

Author Biography:

Isaiah Berlin was 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 Hedgehog and the Fox", "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 He has edited several other volumes by Berlin and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.

Release date Australia

June 2nd, 2013

Author

Isaiah Berlin

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributors

Edited by Henry Hardy
Foreword by Mark Lilla
Introduction by Roger Hausheer

Edition

2nd Revised edition

Pages

584

Dimensions

140x216x38

ISBN-13

9780691156101

Product ID

21046528

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