History of Ideas

Imagination as artistic, poetic and cultural predicate remains one of the most influential ideas in the history of Western thought. Imagination has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force, and revered as the

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas. It addresses three main questions: what sort of meanings do historians study?

Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)
BY: Richard Wolin

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.

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.