Russian thinkers

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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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Autor: Isaiah Berlin

Organizador: Aileen Kelly | Henry Hardy

Autor

ISAIAH BERLIN

Filósofo e histórico das ideias, sir Isaiah Berlin nasceu em Riga em 1909. Ainda criança mudou-se com a família para São Petersburgo, onde presenciou a Revolução Russa, sucessivamente mudou-se para Inglaterra. Estudou na Universidade de Oxford, onde tornou-se professor de Teoria Social e Política. Morreu em 1997 na mesma cidade de Oxford. Entre seu livros publicados no Brasil estão Vico e Herder (1979), Pensadores russos (1988) e A força das ideias (2005).