Berlin, Isaiah, Sir.

Against the current : essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy ; with an introd. by Roger Hausheer. - New York : Viking Press, 1980. - liii, 394 p. ; 22 cm. - [His Selected writings ; 3] . - Berlin, Isaiah, Sir. 1978 (New York, N.Y; Selections. v. 3. .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 356-373.

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 "nai��?�vete��?�" of Verdi.--Georges Sorel.--Nationalism.--A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin.

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