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<p>"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 <i>War and Peace</i>. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and t

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Author

Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Michael Ignatieff

Publisher

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691156002

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14