Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
7 best books like Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Isaiah Berlin): Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx, Isaiah Berlin: A Life, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Natural Right and History
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
| Author | Hannah Arendt |
| ISBN | 0143039881 |
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann sparked a flurry of debate upon its publication. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s...
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
| Author | Karl Popper |
| ISBN | 0415278449 |
We do not know: we can only guess.
Karl Popper originally wrote Logik der Forchung (The Logic of Research) in 1934. This original version—published in haste to secure an academic position and escape the threat of Nazism (Popper was of Jewish descent)—was heavily condensed at the publisher’s...
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."
The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston...
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two: Hegel and Marx
| Author | Karl Popper |
| ISBN | 0415278422 |
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the World War II and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Poppers The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a vigorous and profound defence of democracy. Its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx...
| Author | Michael Ignatieff |
| ISBN | 0099577313 |
Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him. Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers; historian of the Russian intellgentisia biographer of...
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
| Author | Jürgen Habermas |
| ISBN | 0262581086 |
This is Jürgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation...
Natural Right and History
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| ISBN | 0226776948 |
In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned...
