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Title: Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas. by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer ISBN: 0-691-09026-2 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant!
Comment: Sir Isaiah Berlin was the greatest exponent of Liberal Pluralism
in the 20th Century. "Against The Current" is probably his best collection of essays. The essays on Verdi and George Sorel are worth the price of the book alone. Do yourself a favor and read this book. You will not regret it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Phenomenal, rambling, tour de force.
Comment: In this, his most accessible work, Berlin deals with a host of subjects. The volume contains one of the truly great critical essays on Machiavelli, a brilliant parallel lives exposition of Marx and Disraeli, the classic essay on the Counter-Enlightenment and an amazing 'Hedgehog and Fox'-like analysis of Verdi. Yet again Berlin shows us his gift of imaginative insight - what Vico called 'entrare' - that allows him apparent access to minds, ideologies and cultures utterly alien to his own. He also shows us his gifts as a musician and rhetoriceur, using all his old tricks of repitition and word association. This is, as is usual in his works, as much a flaw as a blessing,and his 'entrare' often ends on a note achingly reminiscent of his own political pluralism, but for all that it is still a masterly collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: Some publisher: Please reprint this wonderful book!
Comment: "Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas" has long been out of print and is hard to find in the used market. I wish some publisher would reprint it--I'm sure it would sell well. It was my introduction to this wonderful, careful, rational thinker and his ideas on pluralism, among many other topics. I'm not smart enough to summarize his thought for public consumption; you must read him for yourself. If you are a warm, loving, human being who is interested in how we got to our present intellectual condition, after reading him you will be a convert. Libraries often have "Against the Current," but you can also find great riches in his other books, some of which Amazon.com will be happy to send to you. Put his name in Keyword Search and check out the numerous titles they carry. (No, I'm not a salesman, just a fan.) I can recommend "Crooked Timber of Humanity" as a good start. For a (still) fresh reading of the life of Karl Marx read Berlin's biography of him. Enrich your life; READ ISAIAH BERLIN!!!
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Title: The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer ISBN: 0374527172 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0374525692 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Power of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691092761 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy ISBN: 0691058385 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 02 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Freedom & It's Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin ISBN: 0691114994 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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