[Read and download] The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, Second Edition
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| #211475 in Books | Isaiah Berlin | 2013-06-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.55 x.39 x5.46l,.31 | File Name: 069115600X | 144 pages | The Hedgehog and the Fox An Essay on Tolstoy s View of History Second Edition
||19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| great book - assumes a lot of background|By jt|I read this essay originally around 20 years ago for a Russian Intellectual History class. This essay summarizes many of the anxieties of the time - it is, like the title says, An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History. It was a quick read (~1.5 hours) but might seem a lot longer if you are not familiar with the topics and people li||"[Berlin] has a deep and subtle feeling for the puzzle of Tolstoy's personality, and he writes throughout . . . with a wonderful eloquence."--William Barrett, New York Times
"Beautifully written and suggestive."--W. H. Auden, Ne
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infini...
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