Isaiah Berlin

The Hedgehog and the Fox

Essay on historical figures who are either hedgehogs or foxes in their thinking

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Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin

British philosopher and historian of ideas whose essay 'Two Concepts of Liberty' distinguished negative liberty (freedom from interference) from positive liberty (freedom to self-govern) in the most influential essay in 20th-century political philosophy. His studies of Russian thinkers and Romantic nationalism are also major works.

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