Russian ThinkersRequired 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. |
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In their search for an ideal that would withstand their destructive critique, many
other Russian intellectuals were led to question the great metaphysical systems
that ruled over nineteenth-century European thought as well as some of the most
...
In their search for an ideal that would withstand their destructive critique, many
other Russian intellectuals were led to question the great metaphysical systems
that ruled over nineteenth-century European thought as well as some of the most
...
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... this duty is binding in a special degree, for he is a wholly dedicated being; and
that his fate is peculiarly sublime and tragic, for his form of self-surrender is to
sacrifice himself totally to his ideal. What this ideal is, is comparatively
unimportant.
... this duty is binding in a special degree, for he is a wholly dedicated being; and
that his fate is peculiarly sublime and tragic, for his form of self-surrender is to
sacrifice himself totally to his ideal. What this ideal is, is comparatively
unimportant.
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Western writer would accept the ideal which I have attributed to the French, nor
that every Russian would subscribe to what I have called the 'Russian'
conception. But, broadly speaking, I think it is a correct division, and holds good
even when ...
Western writer would accept the ideal which I have attributed to the French, nor
that every Russian would subscribe to what I have called the 'Russian'
conception. But, broadly speaking, I think it is a correct division, and holds good
even when ...
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Inhalt
Russia and 1848 | 1 |
The Hedgehog and the Fox 2 4 | 24 |
Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty | 93 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Russian Thinkers Penguin classics |
| Autor | Isaiah Berlin |
| Herausgeber | Henry Hardy, Aileen Kelly |
| Mitwirkende Personen | Aileen Kelly |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | Penguin Books, 2008 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 1. Juli 2008 |
| ISBN | 0141442204, 9780141442204 |
| Länge | 412 Seiten |
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