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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Isaiah Berlin
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
Isaiah Berlin
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.
464 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 18, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780712666909 |
| Publishers | Vintage |
| Pages | 464 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 33 mm · 298 g |
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