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The Hedgehog And The Fox - Isaiah Berlin

The Hedgehog And The Fox

An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

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Buch | Softcover
96 Seiten
2009
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-2753-6 (ISBN)
CHF 15,90 inkl. MwSt
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Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy.
'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.

Sir Isaiah Berlin OM spent the whole of his professional life at Oxford, as a Fellow of All Souls College, a Fellow of New College, Chichele Professor of Social and Political theory and first President of Wolfson College. He is the author of many books and was President of the British Academy from 1974 until 1978. He died in 1997.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.12.2009
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 131 x 197 mm
Gewicht 98 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Slavistik
ISBN-10 0-7538-2753-0 / 0753827530
ISBN-13 978-0-7538-2753-6 / 9780753827536
Zustand Neuware
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