Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin

Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History


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Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Ivan R Dee


"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This fragment of verse by the Greek poet Archilochus describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy, in which he underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all embracing system. Tolstoy longed for a unitary vision, Sir Isaiah observes, but his marvelous perception of people, things, and the moments of history was so acute that he could not stop himself from writing as he saw, felt, and understood. He was by nature a fox who wanted to be a hedgehog. Since its first publication in 1953 Sir Isaiah's

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