Berlin / Hardy Against the Current

Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4323-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

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 current of their times--and still challenge conventional wisdom.

In a new foreword to this corrected edition, which also includes a new appendix of letters in which Berlin discusses and further illuminates some of its topics, noted essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's decision to give up a philosophy fellowship and become a historian of ideas represented not an abandonment of philosophy but a decision to do philosophy by other, perhaps better, means. "His instinct told him," Lilla writes, "that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it." This collection of fascinating intellectual portraits is a rich demonstration of that belief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlin, Isaiah

Hardy, Henry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hausheer, Roger

Lilla, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Mark Lilla ix

Author's Note xxi

Editor's Preface xxiii

Note on References xxix

Introduction by Roger Hausheer xxxi

The Counter-Enlightenment 1

The Originality of Machiavelli 33

The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities 101

Vico's Concept of Knowledge 140

Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment 151

Montesquieu 164

Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism 204

Herzen and His Memoirs 236

The Life and Opinions of Moses Hess 267

Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx and the Search for Identity 317

The 'Naivety' of Verdi 361

Georges Sorel 373

Nationalism: Past Neglect and Present Power 420

Appendix to the Second Edition 449

Index 467

Über Autor(innen)

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.