[PDF.72oo] The Hedgehog and the Fox. An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History.

The Hedgehog and the Fox. An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History.

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 | #1739791 in Books |  Touchstone Books |  1986-01-01 | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 86 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Worth reading if only to enjoy the language of a superior mind.|By Phred|This is an extended essay, 95 pages in this copy. Sir Isaiah Berlin applies the conceit that human thinkers are either: `hedgehogs" - focused on single topics / world views, or philosophies or "foxes" interested in conflicting philosophies and multiple areas of interest - to Leo Tolstoy. Sir Berlin tighte|About the Author|Sir Isaiah Berlin has spent the whole of his professional life at Oxford, where he is now a Fellow of All Souls College. His many books include Russian Thinkers, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Karl Marx, and Against the

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in which he underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all embracing system. Tolstoy longed for a unitary vision, Sir Isaiah observes, but his mar...

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