Russian Thinkers

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Penguin Books, 2008 - 412 Seiten
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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.

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individuals outside a society , because Russia is not a society . We possess
neither a political nor a religious nor a scientific nor a literary life . Boredom ,
apathy , frustration , fruitless efforts – that is our life [ . . . ] China is a disgusting
State , but ...
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... and more direct expression in art . But he never believed that it was the duty of
the artist to prophesy or to preach – to serve society directly by telling it what to do
, by providing slogans , by putting its art in the service of a specific programme .
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An original member of the Society of Wisdom Lovers , Koshelev was a
conservative liberal who helped found the short - lived journal Mnemosyne ( in
classical mythology Mnemosyne is the goddess of memory , mother of the Muses
) . Both the ...

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What should be done? To the question that hung over 19th-century Russia and dogs the world today, Isaiah Berlin would answer, stand firmly uncertain. Russian-born and Oxford-bred, Berlin has almost ... Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Russia and 1848
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The Hedgehog and the
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Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty
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Urheberrecht

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Isaiah Berlin, O.M., C.B.E., first President of Wolfson College, Oxford, from 1966 to 1975, is a Fellow of All Souls. He was a Fellow of New College from 1938 to 1950 and Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford from 1957 to 1967. He served as President of the British Academy of Arts and Letters. He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Brandies, Cambridge, Columbia, East Anglia, Glasgow, Harvard, Hull, Jerusalem, Liverpool, London and Tel Aviv. Sir Isaiah's work covers a wide variety of subjects, but most of his work has appeared in periodicals and symposia. Russian Thinkers is the first of four volumes edited by Henry Hardy which bring together for the first time all of Isaiah Berlin's major essays (excluding those already published in Four Essays on Liberty and Vico and Herder). Isaiah Berlin's other contributions to Russian studies include his translation of Ivan Turgenev's First Love (available from Penguin) and his Introduction to Alexander Herzen's memoirs, My Past and Thoughts. Sir Isaiah was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1979 for the expression in his writings of the idea of the freedom of the individual in society.

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TitelRussian Thinkers
Penguin classics
Autor/inIsaiah Berlin
HerausgeberHenry Hardy, Aileen Kelly
Mitwirkende PersonenAileen Kelly
Ausgabe2
VerlagPenguin Books, 2008
Original vonUniversity of Michigan
Digitalisiert1. Juli 2008
ISBN0141442204, 9780141442204
Länge412 Seiten
  
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