num_pages: 637
description: Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated here the reader will find Berlin's famous essay on Tolstoy, "The Hedgehog and the Fox"; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.
language: English
title: The Proper Study of Mankind
titlecomplete: The Proper Study of Mankind
genres: Political Science, Essays, Politics, Philosophy, Biography, European History, World History, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 711
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux