Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Roger Hausheer
Viking | February 20, 1980 | English | ISBN: 0670109444 | 394 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Viking | February 20, 1980 | English | ISBN: 0670109444 | 394 pages | PDF | 37 MB
Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
