Hans Aarsleff

Hans Aarsleff a professor of English at Princeton, is the author of The Study of Language in England (1976) and From Locke to Saussure, which will be published early next year.

Letter

Vico and Berlin

5 November 1981

SIR: Sir Isaiah’s response to my article (LRB, 5 November 1981) casts fresh light on the background and nature of his opinions. The issue is not whether Vico is original, but that Berlin’s knowledge and arguments do not show in what this originality consists. The issue is Berlin. Criticism of his work is taken to minimise Vico’s originality, a position that for Berlin can only be rooted in ‘lack...
Letter

Vico and Berlin

5 November 1981

SIR: Sir Isaiah’s response to my article (LRB, 5 November 1981) casts fresh light on the background and nature of his opinions. The issue is not whether Vico is original, but that Berlin’s knowledge and arguments do not show in what this originality consists. The issue is Berlin. Criticism of his work is taken to minimise Vico’s originality, a position that for Berlin can only be rooted in ‘lack...

Pieces about Hans Aarsleff in the LRB

From Adam to Aarsleff

Roy Harris, 19 August 1982

The modest title of Hans Aarsleff’s book From Locke to Saussure conceals, among other things, the fact that it goes a long way beyond Saussure. Its implications reach right down to...

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