Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin

Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

Isaiah Berlin

584 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction essays history philosophy informative slow-paced

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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 unu...

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