Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
by Berlin, Isaiah; edited by Henry Hardy, introduction by Roger Hausheer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701204397
- ISBN 13
- 9780701204396
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Hogarth Press, 1980. 13 essays & a bibliography of Berlin's works; subjects of the essays include Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Hume, Herzen, Hess, Disraeli & Marx, Verdi, Sorel. State second printing, 1980, a year after the first; hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket; somewhat obtrusive ink name, place & date with bookplate on free endsheet; jacket price-clipped with publisher's price sticker. Text clean; liii, blank, 394 pages; index, bibliography. . Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0401
- Title
- Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
- Author
- Berlin, Isaiah; edited by Henry Hardy, introduction by Roger Hausheer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0701204397
- ISBN 13
- 9780701204396
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Epistemology, Originality, Exceptionalism
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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