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The Hedgehog And The Fox Isaiah Berlin

The Hedgehog And The Fox par Isaiah Berlin

The Hedgehog And The Fox Isaiah Berlin

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Résumé

'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

The Hedgehog And The Fox Résumé

The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff Isaiah Berlin

'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

The Hedgehog And The Fox Avis

Brilliant ... searching and profound * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
This little book is so entertaining, as well as acute, that the reader hardly notices that it is learned too * OBSERVER *
Very readable, with a lively honed down style * SUNDAY MERCURY *
The most important study of Tolstoy's thought written in English for a long time * THE LISTENER *
Delightful to read * SUNDAY TIMES *
[Berlin] has a deep and subtle feeling for the puzzle of Tolstoy's personality, and he writes throughout ... with a wonderful eloquence * NEW YORK TIMES *
Beautifully written and suggestive -- W H Auden * NEW YORKER *
Berlin's stunning command of the resources of scholarship, his sensitivity to literature and to character, and his eloquence as a writer give this essay the lustre of a virtuoso performance * ATLANTIC *
The argument is ingenious and subtle, full of overtones - exactly what good critical writing should be * GUARDIAN *
very readable, with a lively honed down style * SUNDAY MERCURY *

À propos de Isaiah Berlin

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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013302660
9781474619707
1474619703
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, With an Introduction by Michael Ignatieff Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin
W&N Essentials
Occasion - Très bon état
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Orion Publishing Co
2022-04-28
144
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