The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
Autor Roger Hausheeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 1998
Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. "The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780374527174
ISBN-10: 0374527172
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374527172
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 140 x 208 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Descriere
"The Proper Study of Mankind" brings together Berlin's most celebrated writing. Here readers will find his penetrating portraits of contemporaries; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his studies of intellectual originals.