
The Hedgehog And The Fox
An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
By: Isaiah Berlin
Paperback | 9 August 2022 | Edition Number 1
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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
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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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ISBN: 9781474619707
ISBN-10: 1474619703
Series: W&N Essentials
Published: 9th August 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 96
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Orion
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 1.3 x 13.1 x 19.7
Weight (kg): 0.14
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