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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... less free the actor seems to be , the less responsible for his act , and the less disposed we are to hold him accountable or blameworthy . The fact that we shall never identify all the causes , relate all human acts to the circumstances ...
... less free the actor seems to be , the less responsible for his act , and the less disposed we are to hold him accountable or blameworthy . The fact that we shall never identify all the causes , relate all human acts to the circumstances ...
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... less clearly , less plausibly , and with an unnecessary parade of terminology . It is not a mystical or an intuitionist view of life . Our ignorance of how things happen is due not to some inherent inaccessibility of the first causes ...
... less clearly , less plausibly , and with an unnecessary parade of terminology . It is not a mystical or an intuitionist view of life . Our ignorance of how things happen is due not to some inherent inaccessibility of the first causes ...
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... less or more reliable - and that was surely mere prejudice , fanatical obscurantism . - - - Kareev declares that it is men , doubtless , who make social forms , but these forms the ways in which men live in their turn affect those born ...
... less or more reliable - and that was surely mere prejudice , fanatical obscurantism . - - - Kareev declares that it is men , doubtless , who make social forms , but these forms the ways in which men live in their turn affect those born ...
Inhalt
The Hedgehog and the Fox | 24 |
Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty | 93 |
A Remarkable Decade | 130 |
Urheberrecht | |
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