Russian Thinkers
by Berlin, Isaiah (Author); Hardy, Henry (Editor); Kelly, Aileen (Introduction by)Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-25
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
Required reading for fans of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia—the landmark investigation into Russian history and thought Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkersis 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.”
Author Biography
Isaiah Berlinat, at Oxford, was a Fellow of All Souls, a Fellow of New College, Professor of Social and Political Theory and founding President of Wolfson College.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: A Complex Vision | |
| Russia and 1848 | p. 1 |
| The Hedgehog and the Fox | p. 24 |
| Herzen and Bakunin on Individual Liberty | p. 93 |
| A Remarkable Decade | |
| The Birth of the Russian Intelligentsia | p. 130 |
| German Romanticism in Petersburg and Moscow | p. 155 |
| Vissarion Belinsky | p. 170 |
| Alexander Herzen | p. 212 |
| Russian Populism | p. 240 |
| Tolstoy and Enlightenment | p. 273 |
| Fathers and Children | p. 299 |
| Glossary of names | p. 353 |
| Concordance to the first edition | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 393 |
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