The counter-enlightenment -- The originality of Machiavelli -- The divorce between the sciences and the humanities -- Vico's concept of knowledge -- Vico and the ideal of the enlightenment -- Montesquieu -- Hume and the sources of German anti-rationalism -- Herzen and his memoirs -- The life and opinions of Moses Hess -- Benjamin Disraeli, Karl Marx, and the search for identity -- The "naïveté" of Verdi -- Georges Sorel -- Nationalism -- A bibliography of Isaiah Berlin.
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