Russian ThinkersPenguin Publishing Group, 25.03.2008 - 448 Seiten Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia-the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, "the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... reality . Tolstoy's lethal nihilism demolished the pretensions of all theories , dogmas and systems to explain , order or predict the complex and contradictory phenomena of history and social existence , but the driving force of this ...
... reality . Tolstoy's lethal nihilism demolished the pretensions of all theories , dogmas and systems to explain , order or predict the complex and contradictory phenomena of history and social existence , but the driving force of this ...
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... reality . What is , is , because it must be . To under- stand it is to understand the beauty and the harmony of everything as it falls into its own appointed time and place in accordance with intelligible and necessary laws . Everything ...
... reality . What is , is , because it must be . To under- stand it is to understand the beauty and the harmony of everything as it falls into its own appointed time and place in accordance with intelligible and necessary laws . Everything ...
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... realities . I look for happiness only in the world of fancy , only fantasies make me happy . As for reality - reality is an executioner.1 And in the same year : I am tormented by the thought of the pleasures I have let go because of the ...
... realities . I look for happiness only in the world of fancy , only fantasies make me happy . As for reality - reality is an executioner.1 And in the same year : I am tormented by the thought of the pleasures I have let go because of the ...
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The Hedgehog and the Fox | 24 |
Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty | 93 |
A Remarkable Decade | 130 |
Urheberrecht | |
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