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The Origins of Cultural History: 1 – Two Notions of the History of Culture: The German versus the French Tradition

Isaiah Berlin

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The Second Proposition Which He Believed in Was That Human Activity Is a Form of Communication

The whole of the spectrum it i men, which is nowadays regarding social criticism, and examines our motives, not only from the individual, but from the social point of view as well, stems from him. And in order to understand the world, you must understand it as if it were the creation of some kind ofo oartistic process where some kind of single personality was imprinted upon it. To him, the single personality was acause the collective personality of a particular group. He happened to believe in language as the uniting facter. Now, what this particular belief wat these beliefs combined into how they were sharpened and distorted into the much more dogmatic and far less plausible doctrines

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