Overview
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.
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.
- | Author: Isaiah Berlin
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Sep 18, 1997
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780712666909
- | ISBN-10: 0712666907