- History, Knowledge, Philosophy, Political and social views
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace.
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Character-led, cool, contemplative and earnest.
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- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Isaiah Berlin
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Orion, Princeton University Press
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400846634
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Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. Although averse to writing, his improvised lectures and talks were recorded and transcribed, with his spoken word being converted by his secretaries into his published essays and books. **Source**: [Isaiah Berlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin) on Wikipedia.
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