# Against the Current

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- Authors: [Isaiah Berlin](https://www.bookquiver.com/isaiah-berlin)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1997-09-18
- Genres: Published diaries, letters and journals, Essays, Society and culture: general, Philosophy

## Description

Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition.

## Editions

### Against the Current

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4649-619-0
- Published: 2012-06-30
- Language: en_GB

### Against the Current

- Publisher: Pimlico
- ISBN: 978-07-1266-690-9
- Pages: 464
- Published: 1997-09-18
- Language: en_GB