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The Hedgehog and the Fox is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin that was published as a book in 1953. It was one of his most popular essays with the general public.
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8 ago 2016 · Here, The Hedgehog and the Fox becomes an essay about Tolstoy’s philosophy of art and history (as expressed in War and Peace ), a dazzling tour de force of fewer than a hundred pages....
Perhaps his most influential book, however, was The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), in which he divides the world’s thinkers into those (the foxes) who, like Aristotle and Shakespeare, “knew many things,” and those (the hedgehogs) who, like Plato and Dante, “knew one big thing.”
2 giu 2013 · 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.
This page contains details about the book The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin published in 1953. This book is the 1230th greatest book of all time as determined by thegreatestbooks.org.
The hedgehog and the fox : an essay on Tolstoy’s view of history / Isaiah Berlin ; edited by Henry Hardy ; foreword by Michael Ignatief. – Second Edition. pages cm Previously published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953.
