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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... genius , his destiny as a great Russian writer ; and this he rejected with violent indignation even during his middle years , before the final religious phase . For this was not to give the answer to the question of what there is , and ...
... genius , his destiny as a great Russian writer ; and this he rejected with violent indignation even during his middle years , before the final religious phase . For this was not to give the answer to the question of what there is , and ...
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... genius precisely owing to false and vulgar theories of this kind ; yet he remained , none the less , a good writer to the degree to which , like Balaam , although he might have meant to curse virtue , he could not help discerning what ...
... genius precisely owing to false and vulgar theories of this kind ; yet he remained , none the less , a good writer to the degree to which , like Balaam , although he might have meant to curse virtue , he could not help discerning what ...
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... genius - a capacity for rendering the very multiplicity of interpenetrating human perspectives that shade imperceptibly into each other , nuances of character and behaviour , motives and attitudes , undistorted by moral passion . The ...
... genius - a capacity for rendering the very multiplicity of interpenetrating human perspectives that shade imperceptibly into each other , nuances of character and behaviour , motives and attitudes , undistorted by moral passion . 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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