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The sense of reality: studies in ideas and their history

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Random House 1997Description: xx, 278 pISBN:
  • 9780712673679
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 901 B3S3
Summary: In this book the eminent scholar gathers nine long essays, eight previously unpublished, on the ideas that have governed European history for the last three centuries: nationalism, liberalism, and especially Marxism. Always seeking to draw moral lessons, Berlin wonders aloud why it is that humans admire men stirred by the lust for power or jealousy of others, or monomaniacal vanity--including notable figures of history like Peter the Great and Napoleon. He proposes a few answers in this study of ideas brought to power, and those answers are always illuminating.
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 44-A / Slot 2483 (3rd Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 901 B3S3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 164488

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this book the eminent scholar gathers nine long essays, eight previously unpublished, on the ideas that have governed European history for the last three centuries: nationalism, liberalism, and especially Marxism. Always seeking to draw moral lessons, Berlin wonders aloud why it is that humans admire men stirred by the lust for power or jealousy of others, or monomaniacal vanity--including notable figures of history like Peter the Great and Napoleon. He proposes a few answers in this study of ideas brought to power, and those answers are always illuminating.

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