Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 93, Part 5) - Paperback

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Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780871699350

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by Joseph Mali (Editor), Robert Wolker (Editor)

As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature.

Number of Pages: 196

Dimensions: 0.48 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN

Publication Date: January 01, 2003

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