Three Critics of the Enlightenment
：Vico, Hamann, Herder, Second Edition
Publication subTitle ：Vico, Hamann, Herder, Second Edition
Author： Berlin Isaiah;Hardy Henry;Israel Jonathan
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781400848522
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691157658
Subject： B504 17th - 19th century Early Philosophy
Keyword： 哲学、宗教,哲学理论,现代哲学,世界哲学,世界史
Language： ENG
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Description
Isaiah Berlin was deeply admired during his life, but his full contribution was perhaps underestimated because of his preference for the long essay form. The efforts of Henry Hardy to edit Berlin's work and reintroduce it to a broad, eager readership have gone far to remedy this. Now, Princeton is pleased to return to print, under one cover, Berlin's essays on these celebrated and captivating intellectual portraits: Vico, Hamann, and Herder. These essays on three relatively uncelebrated thinkers are not marginal ruminations, but rather among Berlin's most important studies in the history of ideas. They are integral to his central project: the critical recovery of the ideas of the Counter-Enlightenment and the explanation of its appeal and consequences--both positive and (often) tragic.
Giambattista Vico was the anachronistic and impoverished Neapolitan philosopher sometimes credited with founding the human sciences. He opposed Enlightenment methods as cold and fallacious. J. G. Hamann was a pious, cranky dilettante in a peripheral German city. But he was brilliant enough to gain the audience of Kant, Goethe, and Moses Mendelssohn. In Hamann's chaotic and long-ignored writings, Berlin finds the first strong attack on Enlightenment rationalism and a wholly original source of the coming swell of romanticism. Johann Gottfried Herder, the progenitor of populism and European nationalism, rejected universalism and rationalism but championed cultural pluralism.
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