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Copyright Isaiah Berlin 1955
© Isaiah Berlin 1955, 1959, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 2013
Letters by Isaiah Berlin © The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2013
Letter from David Cecil © The Estate of Lord David Cecil 2013
‘Hume and the Sources of German Anti-Rationalism’
© Edinburgh University Press 1977
‘Vico and the Ideal of the Enlightenment’ © Social Research 1979
Selection and editorial matter © Henry Hardy 1979, 2013
Introduction © Roger Hausheer 1979
Foreword © Princeton University Press 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berlin, Isaiah, 1909–1997.
Against the current : essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin; edited by Henry Hardy; introduction by Roger Hausheer; foreword by Mark Lilla. – Second edition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-15610-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Philosophy. I. Hardy, Henry. II. Title.
B29.B445 2013
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