Three critics of the Enlightenment
Subtitle: Vico, Hamann, Herder
By: Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy.
Contributors: Berlin, Isaiah, Sir.; Hardy, Henry.
Series: Princeton paperbacks; Pimlico -- 372; Pimlico (Series) -- 372.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Vico, Giambattista, -- 1668-1744; Hamann, Johann Georg, -- 1730-1788; Herder, Johann Gottfried, -- 1744-1803; Irrationalism (Philosophy) -- History -- 18th century
Description: "Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on Vico, Hamann, and Herder.

These essays on three relatively uncelebrated thinkers are not marginal ruminations, but rather among Berlin's most important studies in the history of ideas. They are integral to his central project: the critical recovery of the ideas of the Counter-Enlightenment and the explanation of its appeal and consequences - both positive and (often) tragic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Incorporating Vico and Herder and The magus of the north."

Includes bibliographical references and index.