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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

by Isaiah Berlin · 1953

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The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.

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