Format:
1 Online-Ressource (lxxxiii, 494 pages)
Edition:
2nd edition
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1446496198
,
1400843235
,
9781446496190
,
9781400843237
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691156101
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691156107
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997 Against the current Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Ideengeschichte
;
Philosophie
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Berlin, Isaiah 1909-1997
Author information:
Hardy, Henry 1949-
Author information:
Lilla, Mark 1956-
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