Against the Current

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.

Author's Note

vii

Editor's Preface

ix

Note to the Princeton Edition

xii

Introduction

xiii

Roger Hausheer

The Counter-Enlightenment

1

(24)

The Originality of Machiavelli

25

(55)

The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities

80

(31)

Vico's Concept of Knowledge

111

(9)

Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment

120

(10)

Montesquieu

130

(32)

Hume and the Source of German Anti-Rationalism

162

(26)

Herzen and his Memoirs

188

(25)

The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess

213

(39)

Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity

252

(35)

The `Naivete' of Verdi

287

(9)

Georges Sorel

296

(37)

Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power

333

(24)

A Bibliography of Isaiah Berlin

357

(42)

Index

399

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