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Three Critics of the Enlightenment - Vico, Hamann, Herder (Paperback)
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment - Vico, Hamann, Herder (Paperback)
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This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's
central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the
excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the
skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of their
views. The contributions of these particular critics could hardly
be more important. Giambattista Vico estabished that the humanties
are and must remain crucially different from the sciences: J G
Herder - sometimes called the father of European nationalism -
originated populism, expressionism and pluralism (an idea which
Berlin enriched and made powerfully his own); and the
anti-rationalist J.G. Hamann lit the fuse of romanticism, the major
movement to arise out of the various currents of hostility to
Enlightenment thought. The intellectual tension that existed
between Enlightenment advocates and these critics is as crucial
today as it was at its inception. With his customary humane
understanding, Berlin analyses the ideas of three deeply original
but often neglected thinkers, and demonstrates their disturbing
relevance to the central issues of today's world. This new edition
includes three previously uncollected pieces on Vico, an
interesting passage excluded from the first edition of the essay on
Hamann, and Berlin's thoughtful letters responding to two reviewers
of that same edition.
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