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Russian Thinkers: Isaiah Berlin (Penguin Classics)

Russian Thinkers: Isaiah Berlin (Penguin Classics)

by Aileen Kelly (Introduction), Aileen Kelly (Editor), Isaiah Berlin (Author), Henry Hardy (Editor), Aileen Kelly (Introduction), Aileen Kelly (Editor)

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 448
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 31 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0141442204
ISBN 13: 9780141442204

Media Reviews
The enduring vitality of Berlin's characterisation of Russian thought is demonstrated by the publication [...] of a new edition of Russian Thinkers, painstakingly revised and augmented by Henry Hardy ... a series of sparkling and sympathetic essays * Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
The work of Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) covered a wide variety of subjects, mostly appearing in periodicals and symposia. Apart from Russian Thinkers, 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.