The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Foreword by)Publish date:2013-06-02Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691156002ISBN-10:069115600XUPC:9780691156002Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, History & Surveys, EuropeanBook Topic:EasternSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCF2H7ZYCS
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition
"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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691156002ISBN-10:069115600XUPC:9780691156002Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Russian & Soviet, History & Surveys, EuropeanBook Topic:EasternSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCF2H7ZYCS
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. A fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, he was the author of many books, including Against the Current, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, and The Roots of Romanticism (all Princeton). Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other...
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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2nd Revised Edition
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Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (Editor), Michael Ignatieff (Foreword by)
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