Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas Sunday, August 9 2009.

• In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance in the history of thought of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom--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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Added a contributor: Isaiah Berlin: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Henry Hardy: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas Friday, July 17 2009.

• OPPOSITION to the central ideas of the French Enlightenment, and of its allies and disciples in other European countries, is as old as the movement itself.