books.google.de - 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...http://books.google.de/books/about/Against_The_Current.html?hl=de&id=1-gDK9BxnGkC&q=Spinoza&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAgainst The Current
