Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Margaret - GoodreadsDo his insights really penetrate, or is it just the supremely self-assured prose? No, they do. Amazing essay on Tolstoy, even if a Tolstoy I barely recognize: "an incurable love of the concrete, the ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - John - GoodreadsWithout any doubt a superlative book by any measure. I can think of no better introduction to the origins of the Russian intelligensia - none, but then I've not yet read Mark Raeff's book. Nonetheless ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Cheryl - GoodreadsRussia in 1848 was a hybernating bear. The Decembrist uprising of 1825 only a fading memory, as the imperial government under Nicholas I had effectively extinguished the protests. In the vast expanse ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Aasem Bakhshi - Goodreads"Describe, don't explain". Though Wittgenstein perhaps wrote those words while discussing the epistemological value of science, one has to read Isaiah Berlin in order to see their true expository ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - psm - Goodreadsa brilliant exposition of the 19th century russian intelligentsia, set out in lucid, intelligent prose (something of a rarity nowadays). berlin is an excellent expositor of the genealogy of ideas ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsAmong the seven essays collected in Russian Thinkers is perhaps Isaiah Berlin's most famous work, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," which begins with an ancient Greek proverb ("The fox knows many things ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Geoffrey Rose - GoodreadsIt's a great book in terms of understanding a.) 19th century Russian thought and intellectual culture and b.) Berlin's own views. Strangely, I found "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (an essay I've read ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Iris Asllani - Goodreads"These essays, by possible the most brilliant and engaging intellect of our time, illuminate dazzlingly both the Russian mind and the role of ideas in history." -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Russian Thinkers
Nutzerbericht - Pippa222 - GoodreadsI loved, loved, loved this book! Here I discovered Herzen and the populists of 19th century Russia, and went on to do a degree course to find out more. Beautiful... and much of the literature he quotes is no longer available, so that gives it a double value. A book to treasure. Vollständige Rezension lesen
