The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays

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 writing: 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.

Author: Isaiah Berlin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/02/2000
Pages: 704
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9780374527174