Description
| Product ID: | 9780141442204 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Russian Thinkers |
| Authors: | Author: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Aileen Kelly |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of ideas, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, History of ideas, Russia, Russian, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, the author 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 he describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.' 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.'' |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-01-31 |
