Hedgehog And The Fox

Name: Hedgehog And The Fox
Brand: Orion Publishing Co
SKU: 9781474619707
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An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff

Автор: Isaiah Berlin

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Orion Publishing Co

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'Beautifully written and suggestive' W H Auden, NEW YORKER'Ingenious and subtle ... exactly what goo...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Isaiah Berlin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2022

страници

144

EAN

9781474619707

ISBN

1474619703

Enbook ID

33467075

Издател

Orion Publishing Co

Теглоt

136

Размери

196 x 130 x 15

Пълно описание

'Beautifully written and suggestive' W H Auden, NEW YORKER'Ingenious and subtle ... exactly what good critical writing should be' GUARDIAN'Delightful' SUNDAY TIMES'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply used it, without implying anything about the true meaning of the words, to outline a fundamental distinction that exists in mankind, between those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things (foxes) and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system (hedgehogs).When applied to Tolstoy, the image illuminates a paradox of his philosophy of history, and shows why he was frequently misunderstood by his contemporaries and critics. Tolstoy was by nature a fox, but he believed in being a hedgehog.

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