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Isaiah Berlin gives a lecture on one of the key figures of the Counter-Enlightenment, the reactionary French Catholic thinker, Joseph de Maistre. This lecture was given on October 27th 1965. The previous talk on J G Hamann can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnJUsqnnAKI
Also check out Berlin's brilliant lecture on Romanticism, a movement which is closely connected to the Counter-Enlightenment and which Berlin thinks is responsible for "the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred", and which he also tries to show would later influence the existentialists and the fascists, but paradoxically had its greatest influence upon the emergence of a liberalism that seems at complete odds with the romantic sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snaamkYDcg
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