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

by Robert Wokler and Isaiah Berlin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871699354
• ISBN13: 9780871699350
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"