{"product_id":"the-hedgehog-and-the-fox","title":"The Hedgehog And The Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Brilliant. Searching and profound'' \u003cb\u003eE.H. Carr, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air'' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Beautifully written'' \u003cb\u003eW. H. Auden, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Ingenious. Exactly what good critical writing should be'' \u003cb\u003eMax Beloff, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Isaiah Berlin, there is a fundamental distinction in mankind: those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things - foxes - and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system - hedgehogs. It can be applied to the greatest creative minds: Dante, Ibsen and Proust are hedgehogs, while Shakespeare, Aristotle and Joyce are foxes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet when Berlin reaches the case of Tolstoy, he finds a fox by nature, but a hedgehog by conviction; a duality which holds the key to understanding Tolstoy''s work, illuminating a paradox of his philosophy of history and showing why he was frequently misunderstood by his contemporaries and critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a foreword by Michael Ignatieff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307560247678,"sku":"NW9781474619707","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474619707.jpg?v=1778638437","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/the-hedgehog-and-the-fox","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}