ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1957
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Isaiah Berlin - The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy`s View of History
New American Library / Mentor, 1957
128 str.
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A brilliant essay on history as viewed by LEO TOLSTOY in his classic, WAR AND PEACE

Man`s Fate
Is man the captain of his destiny or is he the victim of inexorable forces which combine to crush his individuality? Does any man-or woman really mold history?
These pertinent questions which plagued the author of `War and Peace` are now brilliantly examined by the noted English scholar and philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, the editor of `The Age of Enlightenment: the 18th Century Philosophers.`

ISAIAH BERLIN is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in Philosophy. He has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and Bryn Mawr College, and has written widely on philosophical, historical and political subjects.


`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 distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin`s most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology.


Nonfiction, Philosophy, Tolstoj