The Hedgehog and the Fox
- Authors
- Ignatieff, Michael, Hardy, Henry, Berlin, Isaiah
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Tags
- philosophy , history , writing , politics
- ISBN
- 9780691156002
- Date
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.85 MB
- Lang
- en
The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.