Berlin / Hardy Against the Current

Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4323-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten

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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 He has edited several other volumes by Berlin and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.