Isaiah Berlin: The Hedgehog And The Fox, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Hedgehog And The Fox
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff
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- Verlag:
- Orion Publishing Co, 04/2022
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781474619707
- Artikelnummer:
- 10390059
- Umfang:
- 144 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 140 g
- Maße:
- 196 x 128 mm
- Stärke:
- 14 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 28.4.2022
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E. H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement
'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books
'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker
'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be' Max Beloff, Guardian
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
For Isaiah Berlin, there is a fundamental distinction in mankind: those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things - foxes - and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system - hedgehogs. It can be applied to the greatest creative minds: Dante, Ibsen and Proust are hedgehogs, while Shakespeare, Aristotle and Joyce are foxes.
Yet when Berlin reaches the case of Tolstoy, he finds a fox by nature, but a hedgehog by conviction; a duality which holds the key to understanding Tolstoy's work, illuminating a paradox of his philosophy of history and showing why he was frequently misunderstood by his contemporaries and critics.
With a foreword by Michael Ignatieff
A W&N Essential
Biografie
Isaiah Berlin, geboren 1909 in Riga, war von 1957 bis 1967 Professor für Sozialphilosophie und Politische Theorie in Oxford, von 1974 bis 1978 Präsident der Britischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Er starb 1997.
