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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... truth must necessarily be largely social , and that , for this reason , all forms of insulation and escape from environment must , to that degree , be falsifications of the truth , and treason to it . For him the man and the artist and ...
... truth must necessarily be largely social , and that , for this reason , all forms of insulation and escape from environment must , to that degree , be falsifications of the truth , and treason to it . For him the man and the artist and ...
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... truth , the immutable , eternal truth which only charlatans and sophists represent as varying in different circum- stances and times and places - the truth which is visible fully only to the innocent eye of those whose hearts have not ...
... truth , the immutable , eternal truth which only charlatans and sophists represent as varying in different circum- stances and times and places - the truth which is visible fully only to the innocent eye of those whose hearts have not ...
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... truth clearly and then to stop . Turgenev , on the other hand , is judged to be both an excellent writer and to stand in a real , morally adequate , relationship to his subjects ; but he fails on the second count : the subjects are too ...
... truth clearly and then to stop . Turgenev , on the other hand , is judged to be both an excellent writer and to stand in a real , morally adequate , relationship to his subjects ; but he fails on the second count : the subjects are too ...
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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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