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The Hedgehog And The Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff
Series: W&N Essentials
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'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, Guardian
Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy
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'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, GuardianThe 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 IgnatieffA W&N Essential
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Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and The Fox is celebrated for its insightful and deeply intellectual analysis of Tolstoy's thought, praised as both entertaining and scholarly by the Observer. Reviewers highlight Berlin's eloquence and his keen understanding of Tolstoy's complex personality, with the New York Times noting his deep and subtle approach. The book is recognized as an important work on Tolstoy, featuring a lively and readable style according to the Sunday Mercury.
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ISBN: 9781474619707
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 April 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 132g
Pages: 144
About the Author
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.
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