The Proper Study Of Mankind
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Author |
: Isaiah Berlin |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 706 |
Release |
: 2012-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781446496954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1446496953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Proper Study Of Mankind by : Isaiah Berlin
‘He becomes everyman’s guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas’ New York Review of Books Isaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his best essays in which his insights both illuminate the past and offer a key to the burning issues of today. The full (and enormous) range of his work is represented here, from the exposition of his most distinctive doctrine - pluralism - to studies of Machiavelli, Tolstoy, Churchill and Roosevelt. In these pages he encapsulates the principal movements that characterise the modern age: romanticism, historicism, Fascism, relativism, irrationalism and nationalism. His ideas are always tied to the people who conceived them, so that abstractions are brought alive. EDITED BY HENRY HARDY AND ROGER HAUSHEER AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDREW MARR
Author |
: Alexander Pope |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000367099 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essay on Man by : Alexander Pope
Author |
: Isaiah Berlin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 143 |
Release |
: 2013-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400846634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400846633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hedgehog and the Fox by : Isaiah Berlin
"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 War and Peace. 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 those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system. Applied to Tolstoy, the saying illuminates a paradox that helps explain his philosophy of history: Tolstoy was a fox, but believed in being a hedgehog. One of Berlin's most celebrated works, this extraordinary essay offers profound insights about Tolstoy, historical understanding, and human psychology. This new edition features a revised text that supplants all previous versions, English translations of the many passages in foreign languages, a new foreword in which Berlin biographer Michael Ignatieff explains the enduring appeal of Berlin's essay, and a new appendix that provides rich context, including excerpts from reviews and Berlin's letters, as well as a startling new interpretation of Archilochus's epigram.
Author |
: Sam D. Gill |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2021-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197527221 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197527221 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Proper Study of Religion After Jonathan Z. Smith by : Sam D. Gill
In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself; play, philosophically understood, as a coredynamic of Smith's entire program; the relationship of academic document-based studies to the sensory-rich real world of religions; and self-moving as providing a biological and philosophical foundation on which to develop and expand upon a proper academic study of religion.
Author |
: Stuart Chase |
Publisher |
: New York : Harper |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1956 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3527800 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Proper Study of Mankind by : Stuart Chase
Author |
: Oliver Sacks |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780684853949 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0684853949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by : Oliver Sacks
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
Author |
: Stuart Chase |
Publisher |
: New York : Harper & Row |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015000567340 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Proper Study of Mankind by : Stuart Chase
Author |
: Roger Ebbatson |
Publisher |
: Burns & Oates |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015029711754 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hardy by : Roger Ebbatson
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 3 |
Release |
: 1868 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:995629300 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis "The Proper Study of Mankind is Man". by :
Author |
: Elizabeth George |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 610 |
Release |
: 2009-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553906394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553906399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by : Elizabeth George
Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of stones known as Nine Sisters Henge, it is clearly not a case for Mountain Rescue. The corpses are those of a young man and woman. Each met death in a different fashion. Each died violently. To Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, brought in to investigate by special request, this grisly crime promises to be one of the toughest assignments of his career. For the unfortunate Nicola Maiden was the daughter of a former officer in an elite undercover unit, a man Lynley once regarded as a mentor. Now, as Lynley struggles to find out if Nicola's killer was an enemy of her father's or one she earned herself, a disgraced Barbara Havers, determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her longtime partner, crisscrosses London seeking information on the second murder victim. Yet the more dark secrets Lynley and Havers uncover, the more they learn that neither the victims nor the suspects are who they appear to be. And once again they come up against the icy realization that human relationships are often murderous...and that the blood that binds can also kill.